Sure, the LHC is impressive. But even bigger machines are in the works.
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New Accelerators on the Horizon
An Upgrade Helps to Look for Gravitational Waves
A newly-improved Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory began generating data this year, after a $200 million upgrade.
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Pushing Iranian Physics Forward
Iranian science may be one of the winners in this summer’s deal brokered between the Islamic Republic of Iran and a group of world powers
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Movies of Cold War Bomb Tests Hold Nuclear Secrets
One doesn’t just set off a nuclear weapon. So nuclear physicists are dissecting old bomb test footage to uncover the weapons' secrets.
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Get Lost in These Trippy Fluid Dynamics GIFs
The winning videos from the 2015 American Physics Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics annual visualization contest are here!
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Physicists Are Desperate to Be Wrong About the Higgs Boson
Three years after its discovery, physicists are still fascinated by the Higgs boson’s secrets.
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Searching the Sky for the Wobbles of Gravity
The physicist Gabriela González is on the cusp of finding the first direct evidence of gravitational waves.
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The Jellyfish’s Swimming Secret? It’s a Master of Suction
New fluid dynamics research shows that jellyfish and lampreys essentially suction their way through Earth’s oceans.
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Shape-Shifting Neutrinos Grab the Nobel Prize in Physics
Neutrinos are the second-most abundant particle in the universe...and the most elusive.
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Visions of Future Physics
Nima Arkani-Hamed is championing a campaign to build the world’s largest particle collider, even as he pursues a new vision of the laws of nature.
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