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Wednesday, 07 April 2010 23:28

New element discovered: Ununseptium

Even though the name ununseptium (symbol: Uus) is only temporary, Russian and U.S. scientists still have made an important discovery of a new chemical element, one with an atomic number of Z=117.

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Tuesday, 23 March 2010 23:57

CERN sets first particle collision date

Officials at CERN have announced the date in which the beginning of the physics program will begin at the Large Hadron Collider. In other words, the first collisions of two oppositely-directed particle beams with energies of 3.5 TeV per beam will be attempted, for a combined energy of 7 tera-electron volts (TeV).

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Saturday, 20 March 2010 01:30

Large Hadron Collider goes 3.5 TeV: New world record

On March 19, 2010, CERN's Large Hadron Collider set a new world mark when it circulated two proton beams, each at 3.5 TeV. The next step is to collide these two beams as they go at such tremendous energies. What a collision!

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Friday, 18 December 2009 20:19

LHC adds to record as world's most powerful particle accelerator

The Swiss organization CERN announced on December 18, 2009, that the Large Hadron Collider ended its first full period of operations, in 2009, with a record-setting 2.36 tera-electron volts of energy. And, they are predicting even more energy-generating capacity in 2010.

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Tuesday, 24 November 2009 03:44

Bigger success: Large Hadron Collider makes first collisions

On Monday, November 23, 2009, the scientists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider circulated—for the first time—two beams simultaneously in its gigantic accelerator, giving them a chance to look for sub-particle collisions among its near-speed-of-light protons.

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Saturday, 08 August 2009 18:33

Large Hadron Collider to start up at half power

CERN announces that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will start up in November 2009 at about 3.5 teraelectron-volt (TeV), well off its top energy level but at least it will allow scientists to use the world’s largest particle accelerator/collider.

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Saturday, 20 June 2009 18:46

CERN says its almost ready to turn on Large Hadron Collider

On June 19, 2009, CERN officials announced that its super-fast particle accelerator and collider will restart in the fall of 2009, several weeks later than originally scheduled due to additional repairs and tests to the system.

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Friday, 01 May 2009 21:57

Last magnet lowered into Large Hadron Collider

The final replacement magnet was lowered into the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on April 30, 2009. The event is an important milestone in its repair because further work will be concentrated underground, primarily interconnecting the magnets so the LHC can be restarted in the last quarter of 2009.

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Saturday, 14 March 2009 20:22

God detectors find smaller mass range for Higgs boson

According to U.S. scientists at Fermilab (Batavia, Illinois), their latest experiments and analysis of data from their collider has reduced the range in mass in which the elementary particle called the Higgs boson could be measured. This conclusion helps to pinpoint more accurately where Higgs bosons could exist, and to help explain the physical nature of the Universe.

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Thursday, 12 February 2009 19:41

CERN finds Angels and Demons in its lab

Portions of the new movie Angels & Demons, inspired by the novel of American author Dan Brown, was filmed at the CERN facility near Geneva. Recently, actors Tom Hanks and Ayelet Zurer, along with director Ron Howard, showed the facility’s personnel footage from the movie that was shot there.

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Tuesday, 10 February 2009 04:21

CERN announces new 2009 restart schedule for LHC

Management at CERN on Monday, February 9, 2009 announced a new restart schedule for its Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Its technical specialists, as a group, reached the conclusion that the restart schedule is “tight but realistic" for 2009.

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Friday, 03 October 2008 19:48

Large Hadron Collider goes global

CERN announces that the Computing Grid for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is up and running, as of October 3, 2008, connecting over 140 computer centers in thirty-three countries around the world.

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Saturday, 20 September 2008 18:27

LHC atom smasher temporarily smashed

CERN officials announced that its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be inoperable for at least two months while repairs are conducted after it malfunctioned and was damaged during its initial startup on Friday, September 12, 2008.

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Thursday, 18 September 2008 22:04

Status: Large Hadron Collider after injecting Beams 1 & 2 separately

CERN scientists successfully circulated beam one, the clockwise beam, and, thereafter, beam two, the anti-clockwise beam, on Wednesday, September 10, 2008. The following week involved fixing some problems before proceeding with the next stage.

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Friday, 12 September 2008 20:43

UK's Telegraph reports hackers at CERN's LHC

The U.K. newspaper Telegraph reports online that Greek hackers were able to gain momentary access to a CERN computer system of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) while the first particles were zipping around the particle accelerator on September 10, 2008.

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Friday, 05 September 2008 22:14

Fears about CERN's Large Hadron Collider are 'œpure fiction'

According to new and updated information and data provided since the 2003 Safety Report, the 2008 Safety Report supports the conclusions that the LHC is safe. The world’s largest particle accelerator is on the forefront of answering some important mysteries of our universe.

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Tuesday, 02 September 2008 22:44

Proton-smashing rapper Kate McAlpine youtubes about Large Hadron Collider

Kate McAlpine, a former Michigan State University student, has a physics rap song about CERN's Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest particle accelerator. Collide with it at YouTube!

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Tuesday, 02 September 2008 21:39

It's time to circle a particle beam through the Large Hadron Collider

On September 12, 2008, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is scheduled to turn on so that the first high-intensity particle beam can be injected and circulated throughout the entire ringed system of the LHC. Good luck, guys, the world is watching.

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Monday, 25 August 2008 18:02

CERN announces success of final LHC synch test

On Monday, August 25, 2008, CERN officials announced that the second and final test of the beam synchronization systems for its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was accomplished successfully.

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Wednesday, 25 June 2008 18:41

Large Hadron Collider: Blue earth safe from black holes

Over five years of independent research by particle physicists concludes that any black holes produced by CERN's Large Hadron Collider will not demolish the Earth.

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