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Garrett Lisi and Frank Wilczek

Physics

Surfer physicist wins superparticle bet with Nobel laureate

Frank Wilczek bet Garrett Lisi that the Large Hadron Collider would see evidence of supersymmetry, a theory that goes beyond the standard model of particle physics

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Illustration of hydrogen atom with single proton at nucleus and single electron orbiting it

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How big is a proton? No one knows exactly, and that's a problem

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LHC

Physics

Physicists look to the future as new particle dream dies

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Calculations on blackboard

Physics

More haste, less speed: Don't rush to publish premature theory

Leader

A view of one of the detectors at the Large Hadron Collider

Physics

Physicists mourn as hinted particle vanishes in leaked LHC data

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A space scene

Space

Ghost particles may explain why gravity is so surprisingly weak

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2-minute guide to particle physics

2-minute guide to particle physics

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The tube that kicked off particle physics

The tube that kicked off particle physics

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A visitor takes a phone photograph of a large back lit image of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the Science Museum's 'Collider' exhibition on November 12, 2013 in London, England

Power, fame and the LHC: A machine at its peak

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Dark matter no-show puts favoured particles on death row

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Dark matter no-show puts favoured particles on death row

The LUX experiment has seen no sign of WIMPs, the leading candidate for dark matter. That means the elusive particles are running out of hiding places

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Physics

You can touch the heart of physics without doing the hard bits

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Space

Bully particle beats up atoms to fix cosmic accounting glitch

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Physics

Beech marten halts LHC after chewing on a power cable

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That's odd: Why is gravity so weak?

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