Nuclear science

Nuclear science

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  Physicists say they have found a Higgs boson

  It helps solve one of the most fundamental riddles of the universe: how the Big Bang created something out of nothing 13.7 billion years ago. In what ... 

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  A closer look at the Higgs boson

  Scientists working at the world's biggest atom smasher near Geneva have announced they are confident that the new subatomic particle discovered last ... 

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  Atom smasher hiatus sets stage for more discovery

  The world's largest and most powerful atom smasher goes into a 2-year hibernation in March, as engineers carry out a revamp to help it reach maximum ... 

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  Final goodbye: Roll call of some who died in 2012

  Neil Armstrong would always be taking that first step onto the moon, and Dick Clark was forever "the world's oldest teenager." Some of the notables ...