Crazy World: Antimatter Might Just Fall Up
When it comes to antimatter, what goes up doesn't necessarily come down. In a new study, physicists weighed antimatter in an effort to determine how this strange cousin of matter interacts with gravity. Full story
First public website turns 20, comes back online — then crashes
Twenty years ago, on April 30, 1993, CERN set the World Wide Web free. In celebration, the research institute relaunched the first webpage, which provides a real blast from the Internet past. Along with the very basic lo-fi design, the site experienced connectivity issues upon its (re) debut, crashi Full story
Captive particles and Dr. Who show physicists are human too
GENEVA (Reuters) - Physicists are deadly serious people, right? Clad in long white coats, they spend their days smashing particles together in the hunt for exotic creatures like quarks and squarks, leptons and sleptons -- and the Higgs Boson. Full story
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Physicist says ‘new particle observed’
CMS spokesperson Joe Incandela reports in a CERN video that a new particle has been observed at Europe's Large Hadron Collider.
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