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September 2012
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September 14, 2012breaking: First proton-lead collision test at the LHC successfulFor the first time, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider have collided protons with lead ions, a feat that will give them insight into the quark-gluon plasma.
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September 10, 2012breaking: Scientists already planning for LHC long shutdownNext year, scientific collaborations will take full advantage of the Large Hadron Collider's time without beam.
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September 6, 2012breaking: Crews complete first block of North America’s most advanced neutrino experimentTechnicians in Minnesota have completed the first block of a detector that will be part of the largest, most advanced neutrino experiment in North America.
August 2012
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August 29, 2012breaking: Summer school gives African students glimpse into lives in physicsThis month, about 30 instructors and 50 students traveled from around Africa and the rest of the world to gather in Ghana for three and a half weeks of training in physics and computing.
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August 27, 2012breaking: Pierre Auger Observatory tests particle knowledge beyond reach of LHCScientists at the Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory in Argentina recently tested the theory that governs the behavior of protons, the particles that collide in the Large Hadron Collider, at energies inaccessible at the LHC.
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August 27, 2012breaking: Pierre Auger Observatory tests particle knowledge beyond reach of LHCScientists at the Pierre Auger Observatory recently tested the theory that governs the behavior of protons at energies inaccessible at the Large Hadron Collider.
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August 23, 2012breaking: How to grow a universe – just add a supercomputerResearchers have created the most realistic simulation of cosmic evolution to date.
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August 22, 2012breaking: Fermilab retires iconic Cockcroft-Walton generatorsToday Fermilab's iconic Cockroft-Walton generators will send out their last beam.
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August 21, 2012breaking: Astrophysicists discover natural particle collider in spaceThis summer, particle astrophysicists studied a supernova remnant located about 3000 light years away and discovered what is best described as a particle collider in space.
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August 17, 2012breaking: Scientists place new limits on sterile neutrinosTwo Fermilab experiments have put new boundaries on a search for a possibly undiscovered type of neutrino, leaving prior measurements unexplained.
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August 15, 2012breaking: Experiments reveal new techniques in studying quark-gluon plasmaIn the past year, scientists have bulked up their toolkits with new ways to tweak and study a state of matter 100,000 times hotter than the interior of the Sun – the quark-gluon plasma.
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August 14, 2012breaking: Taking it slow at Michigan State’s particle deceleratorThe same trend has dominated throughout accelerator history – bigger and faster is better. And yet, nuclear physicists at Michigan State are trying to slow particles down.
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August 10, 2012breaking: Proposed neutrino experiment bounces back, ready to move onThanks to a new phased construction plan, the proposed Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment is back on track and ready to advance to the next stage of the U.S. Department of Energy approval process.
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August 8, 2012breaking: Experiment surveying large-scale clustering of matter in universe releases first dataThe Third Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III) has issued Data Release 9 (DR9), the first public release of data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). In this release BOSS, the largest of SDSS-III's four surveys, provides spectra for 535,995 newly observed galaxies, 102,100 quasars, and 116,474 stars, plus new information about objects in previous Sloan surveys (SDSS-I and II).
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August 8, 2012breaking: LHCb experiment collects record amount of dataThe LHCb experiment at CERN has collect a record amount of data this year, already surpassing the amount it collected in all of 2011.
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August 7, 2012breaking: Video: In the shadow of the HiggsIf you're still unsure what all the "Higgsteria" was about, we have a new video for you.
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August 2, 2012breaking: Pier Oddone to retire as Fermilab directorThe Fermi Research Alliance (FRA) Board of Directors, which manages and operates Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, announced that Fermilab Director Pier Oddone has decided to retire after eight years at the helm of America’s leading particle physics laboratory.
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August 1, 2012breaking: Physicists show strengthened signals of Higgs-like particle in publicationsThe CMS and ATLAS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider released papers Tuesday confirming their earlier simultaneous, independent discovery of a particle that resembles the Standard Model Higgs boson.
July 2012
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July 30, 2012breaking: Introducing... the Particle Olympics!With the 2012 summer Olympics underway, we at symmetry have just one question on our minds: Which particle would win which Olympic event?
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July 27, 2012breaking: Fermilab deputy director judges Google Science FairOn July 23, Fermilab Deputy Director Young-Kee Kim joined 14 other scientists, science journalists and industry executives to judge the Google Science Fair in Palo Alto, California.
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