Higgs boson

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Donald Perkins obituary
Physicist who played a key role from the birth of particle physics in the 1940s to the discovery of the Higgs boson

Frank Close

22, Nov, 2022 @6:37 PM

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Cern gears up for more discoveries 10 years after ‘God particle’ find
With the Higgs boson already in the bag, the Large Hadron Collider begins another period of data collection

Nicola Davis Science correspondent

04, Jul, 2022 @3:35 PM

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Dr Suzie Sheehy: ‘The eureka moment may come once in your career, or never’
The Australian physicist on the small victories that make lab work fulfilling, how she found forgotten female scientists to include in her first book, and why research is an investment

Killian Fox

16, Apr, 2022 @4:00 PM

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In brief: Unsettled Ground; Genesis; Inferno – reviews
Twins unravel their family history when their mother dies; myths, science and the origins of the universe; and a harrowing account of postpartum psychosis

Hannah Beckerman

28, Mar, 2021 @10:00 AM

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Jack Steinberger obituary
Nobel prizewinning scientist whose work played a significant role in the development of modern particle physics theory

Frank Close

11, Jan, 2021 @5:58 PM

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Sir Michael Atiyah obituary
One of the greatest British mathematicians since Isaac Newton

Ian Stewart

15, Jan, 2019 @3:41 PM

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Has new ghost particle manifested at Large Hadron Collider?
‘Something terribly new’ goes bump in data yet to be confirmed by Atlas detector

Ian Sample Science editor

31, Oct, 2018 @6:00 AM

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Why Nobel prizes fail 21st-century science
It is the ultimate accolade, but critics claim the award is now out of step with modern collaborative research methods

Robin McKie Science Editor

30, Sep, 2018 @7:00 AM

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Life, Physics and Everything
When the Guardian’s science blog network closes, Life & Physics will have been here for eight years. Physics has come a long way in that time, but there is (as always) more to be done...

Jon Butterworth

13, Aug, 2018 @6:34 AM

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Two quarks for Muster Higgs
Since the big discovery of 2012, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN has been accumulating data and making steady progress. Two recent results establish the origins of the mass of the two heaviest quarks

Jon Butterworth

23, Jul, 2018 @6:30 AM

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£720m Large Hadron Collider upgrade 'could upend particle physics'
Collider will be far more sensitive to anomalies that could lead to entirely new theories of the universe

Ian Sample

15, Jun, 2018 @10:33 AM

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Richard Taylor obituary
Scientist who shared the 1990 Nobel prize in physics for establishing that protons and neutrons are made up of quarks

Frank Close

08, Mar, 2018 @5:21 PM

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