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AWAKE helicon plasma cell R&D lab Date: 14-10-2019 Campagne de tests sur la cellule plasma helicon prototype d?AWAKE, en collaboration avec IPP-Greifswald, University of Wisconsin et EPFL-SPC Photograph: Ordan, Julien Marius Keywords: Experiments and Collaborations; AWAKE; Plasma; EPFL; helicon; IPP-Greifswald; University of Wisconsin Note: General Photo Conditions of Use ? 2019-2023 CERN Accessing copyrighted material

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The CERN particle accelerator that will breathe new life into physics

A new breed of collider, called plasma wakefield accelerators, can study fundamental physics in new ways by doing something the Large Hadron Collider cannot do: colliding electrons

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Quantum computer

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Quantum computers could run programs that should be too big for them

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A bouncing water drop

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Strange water wave can bounce a droplet thousands of times

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Quantum Bullsh*t review: Time to save quantum theory for science

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Quantum Bullsh*t review: Time to save quantum theory for science

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The hunt for dark matter: The universe's mysterious gravitational glue

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The hunt for dark matter: The universe's mysterious gravitational glue

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Part of the setup for creating medium density amorphous ice

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Entirely new type of ice made using extremely cold steel balls

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Why the most important topic in physics could be statistical mechanics

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Abstract red laser beam

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Doughnut-shaped laser used to create an optical fibre out of air

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Flickering flames

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Flames that don't flicker could make engines more efficient

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Replacement of the heart of the CMS experiment - the pixel detector, Part2 Date: 07-03-2017 This week, one of the Large Hadron Collider?s experiments gets a ?heart transplant?. --- Physicists and engineers are replacing the heart of the CMS experiment - the pixel #detector. This will improve CMS?s ability to make precise measurements on aspects of the Standard Model, including the properties of the #HiggsBoson. The #LHC and its experiments are currently preparing to wake up this spring, when the accelerator will begin to collide particles once more at close to the speed of light.

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Collision review: How CERN's stellar secrets became sci-fi gold

Margaret Drabble, Luan Goldie, Steven Moffat and Stephen Baxter are among the top writers in Collision, an anthology that transmutes CERN's elusive research into science fiction

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Shortest pulse of electrons ever created lasts just 53 attoseconds

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Neil Turok on the case for a parallel universe going backwards in time

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How AI is shifting the limits of knowledge imposed by complexity

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How can we understand quantum reality if it is impossible to measure?

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