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CERN upgrades world’s most powerful particle accelerator with 11.3 tesla magnets

CERN has just upgraded the world’s largest particle accelerator after successfully powering a new generation of superconducting magnets to their full operating current earlier this month. The European ...
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Scientists Overhaul Giant Particle Collider in Search of Universe’s Hidden Building Blocks

The European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, will dismantle the Large Hadron Collider, which helped discover the so-called God Particle, in order to build a more powerful particle ...

Physicists who uncovered the first particle accelerator were honored with a Nobel Prize 75 years ago – their work shaped physics, medicine and even art research

Particle accelerators aren’t just for testing the Standard Model. They’re also used to diagnose and treat disease and study ...