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CERN’s Oldest Particle Accelerator Is Still Running, 60 Years Later
The oldest particle accelerator at CERN, home to the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, is celebrating its 60th birthday. It’s still running.
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Scientists Debut Powerful Magnet For Future Particle Collider
Physicists at United States Department of Energy laboratory, Fermilab, have produced and tested a powerful magnet of the sort that could appear in the next generation of particle colliders.
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CERN Drops Italian Scientist Who Complained About Women In Physics
Last September, Italian physicist Alessandro Strumia gave a bizarre lecture at CERN in which he argued—to an audience of young women scientists—that women are less qualified to conduct physics than men. This week, CERN officially severed its association with Strumia.
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Elon Musk Might Help Build Tunnels For CERN’s Biggest Ever Particle Collider
Elon Musk has come out on on Twitter to say that the director of research lab CERN, Fabiola Gianotti, asked him about collaborating on a new particle collider. The new particle collider is slated to be four times the size of the Large Hadron Collider. Musk said she asked him whether The Boring Company could…