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How probes directed towards the Sun detect space tornadoes

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How solar probes detect space tornadoes Have you ever thought that space could have its own “tornadoes”? Well, it does! And while you probably don’t picture them like those that wreak havoc across the American plains, these space tornadoes can be just as terrifying – especially if we ignore them. Fortunately, we now have a […]

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CERN and the Birth of the Internet

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How Science Sparked a Digital Revolution When people think of CERN, they often picture particle collisions, the Higgs boson, or the massive Large Hadron Collider buried beneath Geneva.Few realize, however, that one of the most transformative inventions of modern history — the World Wide Web — was born in those very same laboratories. The internet

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Can CERN Create a Black Hole?

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Myths and Reality Behind One of Science’s Most Controversial Questions When the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN was first switched on in 2008, panic spread across the internet and the tabloids.Headlines screamed: “Scientists might create a black hole that will swallow the Earth!” It sounded like something straight out of a science-fiction movie —

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How CERN Discovered the “God Particle”

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The Story of the Higgs Boson — The Particle That Changed Physics Forever On July 4, 2012, the scientific world held its breath. Inside a packed auditorium at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, researchers announced they had finally discovered the long-sought particle that had eluded scientists for decades — the Higgs

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