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Perhaps the best known missing piece in the puzzle that the CERN collider in Geneva will explore is the elusive Higgs boson, a hypothetical subatomic particle believed to give mass to other particles.

Particle physicists believe they will throw open a new frontier of knowledge on Wednesday when, 100 metres below ground, they switch on a mega-machine crafted to unveil the deepest mysteries of matter.

Perhaps the best known missing piece in the puzzle that the CERN collider in Geneva will explore is the elusive Higgs boson, a hypothetical subatomic particle believed to give mass to other particles.

YAHOO! Story published at magicvalley.com on Sunday, September 07, 2008 Last modified on Sunday, September 7, 2008 10:45 AM MDT Project leader for CERN's Large Hadron Collider Lyn Evans, left, speaking with ...

So a bunch of physicists were at a conference, hearing about recent observations from the PAMELA satellite mission, when several of them pulled out cameras and started taking pictures of the results.

Institute of Automatics and Electrometry, Ak. Koptyuga 1, 630090, Novosibirsk, Russia, Novosibirsk State University, Pirogova 2, 630090, Novosibirsk, Russia, Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion, ...

Washington: A machine that took 20 years to build could either shake the foundations of particle physics or entrench it more firmly, besides addressing some of the most fundamental questions facing science now.

As Europe's CERN particle-physics center is counting down to the official startup of the Large Hadron Collider, a report reassuring the public that the world's largest atom-smasher won't destroy the world is ...

Beneath the rural tranquillity of the Geneva countryside, where ramshackle sheds dot the wide-open fields, scientists are getting ready for a trip into the unknown.

In this Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2007 picture, people stand next to the giant magnet Compact Muon Solenoid being placed underground in the Large Hadron Collider accelerator at CERN, the European Particle Physics ...

The Associated Press 5 comments Who says science doesn't turn people on? Kate McAlpine is a rising star on YouTube for her rap performance - about high-energy particle physics.

The method uses a Nobel Prize-winning technology called a 'laser frequency comb', and is published in this week's issue of Science.

A new report published on Friday, 5 September, provides the most comprehensive evidence available to confirm that the Large Hadron Collider 's switch-on, due on Wednesday next week, poses no threat to mankind.

People who fear a powerful atom-smashing machine, due to start operations next Wednesday, will cause Earth to be gobbled up or reduced to grey goo can rest assured, according to a study released today.

MIT researchers may have found a way to overcome a key barrier to the advent of super-fast quantum computers, which could be powerful tools for applications such as code breaking.

It is the most ambitious and expensive civilian science experiment in history, based on the biggest machine that humanity has yet built.

In the framework of a chiral constituent quark model, considering the contributions of annihilation and one-gluon annihilation, the proton-antiproton s-wave elastic scattering cross section experimental data ...

Acceleration of ions from ultrathin foils irradiated by intense circularly polarized laser pulses is investigated using a one-dimensional particle-in-cell code.

A former member of the chart-topping band D:Ream has been revealed as a physicist who is involved in the world's most powerful particle experiment.

Who says science doesn't turn people on? Kate McAlpine is a rising star on YouTube for her rap performance _ about high-energy particle physics.

Her performance has drawn a half-million views so far on YouTube.

The 23-year-old Michigan State University graduate and science writer raps about the Large Hadron Collider, the groundbreaking particle accelerator that has been built in a 17-mile circular tunnel at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland.

McAlpine raps that when the collider goes into operation on Sept. 10, 'the things that it discovers will rock you in the head.'