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CERN News, Jul 31, 2012

Gabrielle Giffords rides Alpine cable car
USA TODAY
Officials at the European Center for Nuclear Research said Tuesday the outing by Giffords, her astronaut husband Mark Kelly and daughter Claire was organized as part of a visit to CERN outside Geneva. Giffords, who held an Arizona seat in Congress for...
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USA TODAY
Gabrielle Giffords tours European physics lab
Atlanta Journal Constitution
... NASA astronaut and commander of mission STS-134, pose for a picture at the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) Payload Operations and Command Center (POCC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Meyrin nearGeneva, ...
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Atlanta Journal Constitution
Former US congresswoman Giffords tours European physics lab on 1st trip ...
Washington Post
GENEVA — Former U.S. congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords toured the European particle physics laboratory Wednesday, cheerfully facing reporters but saying little during her first trip abroad since being shot in the head last year. Giffords was accompanying her husband, retired astronaut Mark Kelly, on a visit to the European Center for Nuclear Research, two days after she rode a cable car up into the French Alps. The lab, known as CERN, had assembled a $2 billion cosmic ray detector that Kelly and his team ...
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NOVA Professor Studying at CERN Physics Lab in Geneva
Patch.com
new Video_thumb. Embed | Share. Dr. Walerian Majewski, a physics professor at the Annandale campus of Northern Virginia Community College, is studying at CERN in Geneva for the summer. Courtesy of Northern Virginia Community College. context ...
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Emotional space voyage to deliver antimatter hunter
New Scientist (blog)
The five NASA astronauts who flew on the final space shuttle mission last year were at CERN nearGeneva, Switzerland, today to hear a progress report about their precious cargo, a cosmic antimatter-hunting machine called the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer ...
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Giffords Visits CERN
TopNews United States
Gabrielle Giffords, along with her husband Mark Kelly, an astronaut, has this Wednesday visited the CERN lab in Geneva, Switzerland, a recent report has uncovered. Kelly's colleagues were also present at the conference, which was conducted at the lab with ...
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TopNews United States
Anti-matter universe sought by space-based detector
Reuters
The International Space Station (ISS) is pictured on a computer monitor at the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) Payload Operations and Command Center (POCC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Meyrin near Geneva July 25, 2012. ... GENEVA(Reuters) - A seven metric ton particle detector parked for over a year on the International Space Station (ISS) aims to establish whether there is an unseen "dark universe" woven into the cosmos, the scientist leading the project said on ...
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SCADA system supports Cern in its Higgs Boson search
Control Engineering Website
The Cern Europe Nuclear Research Center in Meyrin in the Swiss Canton of Geneva is home to the world's biggest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Alongside the control, monitoring and documentation of experiments conducted in the ...
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Higgs-spotting is much easier in Flatland
New Scientist
In marked contrast to the high-energy collisions of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN nearGeneva, Switzerland, where the real Higgs boson was made, the atoms in the new work were arranged in an ultracold, flat array. The work suggests that ...
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Two climate papers get hyped first, reviewed later. Isn't that a bad idea?
Washington Post (blog)
In September 2011, researchers at the CERN institute in Geneva convened a press conference to make a jaw-dropping announcement. The scientists had been firing a beam of neutrinos 450 miles from Switzerland to Italy, and, after taking tens of thousands ...
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Indians leave a footprint on CERN finding of 'God Particle'
Moneylife Personal Finance site and magazine
Geneva: As all eyes today focus on the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, famously known as CERN, Indian scientific and technological contributions are among the many that keeps the world's biggest particle physics laboratory buzzing, reports ...
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Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer claims huge cosmic ray haul
BBC News
By Jason Palmer Science and technology reporter, BBC News, Geneva. AMS ... The crew visited the Payload and Operations Control Centre at Cern on Wednesday, where a shift of six scientists is watching what is whizzing through the AMS 24 hours a day.
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BBC News
AMS experiment marks one year in space
indiablooms
Geneva, July 25 (IBNS) European Organization for Nuclear Research CERN on Wednesday marked the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer's (AMS) first year in space with a visit from the crew of the shuttle mission, STS-134, that successfully delivered AMS to the ...
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Astronauts visit CERN to mark AMS's first year in space
Shanghai Daily (subscription)
GENEVA, July 25 (Xinhua) -- Five Astronauts who installed the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) that aims to detect dark matter and antimatter on the space station one year ago visited its control center in Geneva on Wednesday. Launched on May 16, ...
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Shanghai Daily (subscription)
A closer look at the Higgs boson
New Jersey Herald
BERLIN (AP) — Scientists working at the world's biggest atom smasher near Geneva have announced the discovery of a new subatomic particle that looks remarkably like the long-sought Higgs boson. Sometimes called the "God particle" because its existence is fundamental to ... The atom-smashing experiments at CERN, the European Center for Nuclear Research, have now captured a glimpse of what appears to be just such a Higgs-like particle. WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT? The Higgs is part of many theoretical ...
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Antimatter-Hunting AMS Experiment in Space (Photos)
Space.com
Kelly and the rest of the astronaut crew that helped launch the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer into space last year paid a visit to the physics lab overseeing the experiment — the CERN laboratory inGeneva, Switzerland. The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, ...
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Re-Live The Tevatron's Demise, or Just Hear Some Fermilab Rap from 1992 ...
Scientific American (blog)
By now the huge Higgs news out of CERN is no longer news. The apparent discovery of the Higgs boson has been rehashed countless times in the three-plus weeks since physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) outside Geneva announced they had ...
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Scientific American (blog)
Science-inspired artist to tweet from CERN
Kilkenny People
They will also visit the CERN Large Hadron Collider control centre and be part of an audience of CERN physicists to hear the astronauts' stories in the Main Auditorium, sitting in the same room where the Higgs Boson results were announced on July 4.
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Northern Virginia Community College Physics Professor Enjoying Exceptional ...
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
Dr. Walerian Majewski feels fortunate to be visiting the CERN Large Hadron Collider near Genevathis summer. “I am witnessing a fascinating moment in the history of physics,” Majewski said. “We have just completed our understanding of ordinary matter, ...
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Is there an antimatter mirror universe? Massive space-based detector seeks to ...
Christian Science Monitor
Geneva. A seven-tonne particle detector parked for over a year on the International Space Station (ISS) aims to establish whether there is an unseen "dark universe" woven into the cosmos, the scientist leading the project said on Wednesday. Skip to next paragraph. Related stories ... Why that happened is one of the great mysteries of the cosmos which are being investigated through the AMS and scientific analysts back on the ground at CERN, the European particle physics research centre where Ting spoke.
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Christian Science Monitor
It's a Boson! The Higgs as the Latest Offspring of Math & Physics
Discover Magazine (blog)
Murray Gell-Mann, sitting at an international conference at CERN in Geneva one day in 1962, was able to look at symmetries described by formulas written on the board, run down the aisle and write excitedly on the board his prediction of the existence of a ...
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Discover Magazine (blog)
Higgs boson: What's all the fuss about?
Egypt Independent
These collisions took place at the not-so-creatively-named Large Hadron Collider, an underground tunnel 27 km in circumference located at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, near Geneva. The collider is a $10 billion physicists' ...
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UNL tied to Higgs particle discovery
Daily Nebraskan
Students at UNL helped assemble pieces of the CMS and then sent them to CERN for the experiment. One UNL student also helped create and maintain some of the equipment in Geneva, Switzerland, where the Large Hadron Collider at CERN conducts the ...
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Rice physicists help discover new particle that may be Higgs
Ultimate West U
The search for the Higgs particle is at the heart of the most expensive science project in history. More than $6 billion has been spent by the European CERN group on its Large Hadron Collider. Officials in Geneva, Switzerland, recently declared they have ...
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