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CERN Large Hadron Collider to Restart Late 2009: Damage from Fall 2008 LHC Accident Required Extensive Repairs

By: Feature Writer Paul A. Heckert

A New Experiment in the Hunt for Neutrinos: Astronomers Suspect High Energy Neutrinos Could be Detected on Moon

By: Jeremy Small

Are Scientists Closing in on the Higgs Boson? Also Known as the "God Particle," the Higgs Boson May Be Real

By: Jeremy Small

The Building Blocks of Matter: How Fermions Are Classified

By: Scott Hermanson

The Four Forces of Nature: How Bosons Shape our Universe

By: Scott Hermanson

What Happened to the CERN Large Hadron Collider: Liquid Helium Leak & Warming Magnets Shut Down LHC until April 2009

By: Feature Writer Paul A. Heckert

Tevatron Racing LHC to the Finish: Can the Biggest US Particle Collider Cash In on Delays in Europe?

By: Mike Perricone

Understanding Bosons and Fermions: The Elusive Higgs Boson and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)

By: Feature Writer Paul A. Heckert

What Are Leptons: Electrons, Neutrinos, Other Subatomic Particles, and the Weak Force

By: Feature Writer Paul A. Heckert

What Are Hadrons: Protons, Other Elementary Subatomic Particles, and the Strong Force

By: Feature Writer Paul A. Heckert

Travelling at Light Speed: The Strange Effects of Special Relativity

By: Andy Allison

Can the CERN LHC Destroy Earth? Will Energy from the Large Hadron Collider Form a Black Hole?

By: Feature Writer Paul A. Heckert

World's Biggest Gun Set to Fire September 2008: Will It Unlock Physic's Deepest Secrets or Destroy Earth?

By: Bobby Brown

The Large Hadron Collider Finally Starts Up: Largest Physical Experiment

By: Violet Remba

Principles of Particle Detection: How Exactly do Particle Accelerators Operate?

By: Isaac M. McPhee

Linear and Circular Accelerators: The Modern World of Particle Acceleration and Discovery

By: Isaac M. McPhee

Anti-Particles and Anti-Matter: How Every Particle Possesses an “Equal but Opposite” Partner

By: Isaac M. McPhee

Paul Dirac and the Positron: A Triumph of Mathematics in the First Anti-Particle

By: Isaac M. McPhee

The Quantum Totalitarian Principle: Discovering New Physical Laws Using Bizarre Quantum Properties

By: Isaac M. McPhee

Wave Particle Duality: De Broglie Said Light & Elementary Particles Show both Properties

By: Feature Writer Paul A. Heckert

Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle: Understanding the Role of Uncertainty in Quantum Mechanics

By: Feature Writer Paul A. Heckert

The Photoelectric Effect: Einstein's 1905 Explanation Earned the Nobel Prize

By: Feature Writer Paul A. Heckert

What Is a Neutrino? Elusive Very Low Mass Subatomic Fundamental Particle

By: Feature Writer Paul A. Heckert

What's in a Vacuum? The physics of emptiness

By: Katharine M. J. Osborne

Review: Parallel Universe: A Television Special

By: Katharine M. J. Osborne

Composite Particles: What Happens When Elementary Particles Get Together

By: Katharine M. J. Osborne

Bosons: A Member of the Particle Zoo

By: Katharine M. J. Osborne

Leptons: A Member of the Particle Zoo

By: Katharine M. J. Osborne

Fermions: A Member of the Particle Zoo

By: Katharine M. J. Osborne

The Particle Zoo: An Introduction to Particle Physics

By: Katharine M. J. Osborne

The Neutron: Building Block of Matter

By: Katharine M. J. Osborne

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