5 May 2013

John Ellis, now 66, is one of the foremost experts in the field of particle physics. Ellis has appeared on The Daily Show and in the pages of Vanity Fair and The New York Times, as CERN, its Large...

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23 Dec 2012

Scientists at Europe's CERN research centre said they may be able to definitively announce in March that they have discovered the elusive Higgs boson.

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12 Jul 2012

Our editors will be looking ahead today to these developing stories ...

Court considers challenge to election of C.Y.

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7 Aug 2010

The sight of Wall Street chief executives and Western political leaders going hat in hand to places like Beijing and Dubai to raise desperately needed funds has become commonplace. To this long...

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31 Oct 2009

What do you get when you mix economists with musicians? Some really scary bad rap music.

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12 Oct 2008

The Large Hadron Collider, the machine built under the Swiss-French border to test the Big Bang theory, was shut down for repairs last month.

4:15AM

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - the world's biggest and most-powerful particle accelerator - is supposed to give scientists insights into the Big Bang.

9:06AM

The commissioning of the world's greatest atom smasher next week ought to be a cause for celebration.

11:59AM

If the plaintiffs who have launched a lawsuit against a new multibillion-dollar particle collider at a US court in Hawaii are right, we may be in for extinction. But don't worry! Our last moment...

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