Read article 'CERN becomes UN observer'
CERN becomes UN observer
On 14 December, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution to allow CERN to participate in the work of the General Assembly and to attend its sessions as an observer.
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Read article 'BOSS gives clearer view of baryon oscillations'
BOSS gives clearer view of baryon oscillations
In November the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) released its second major result of 2012, using 48,000 quasars with redshifts (z) up to 3.5 as backlights to map intergalactic hydrogen ...
Read article 'Europe launches consortium for astroparticle physics'
Europe launches consortium for astroparticle physics
At the end of November, European funding agencies for astroparticle physics launched a new sustainable entity, the Astroparticle Physics European Consortium.
Read article 'ATLAS enlists monojets in search for new physics'
ATLAS enlists monojets in search for new physics
Events with a single jet of particles in the final state have traditionally been studied in the context of searches for supersymmetry, for large extra spatial dimensions and for candidates for dark ma...
Read article 'Bs → μμ seen after being sought for decades'
Bs → μμ seen after being sought for decades
It has taken decades of hunting but finally the first evidence for one of the rarest particle decays ever seen in nature, the decay of a Bs (composed of a beauty antiquark and a strange quark) into tw...
Read article 'Mysterious long-range correlations seen in pPb collisions'
Mysterious long-range correlations seen in pPb collisions
The CMS collaboration has published its first result on proton–lead (pPb) collisions, related to the observation of a phenomenon that was seen first in nucleus–nucleus collisions but also detected...
Read article 'New boson’s mirror image looks like the Higgs'
New boson’s mirror image looks like the Higgs
More than 20 years ago, the CMS and ATLAS experiments at the LHC embarked on a long road into the unknown and, rather like Christopher Columbus, the two collaborations reached a new land last summer....
Read article 'Terbium: a new ‘Swiss army knife’ for nuclear medicine'
Terbium: a new ‘Swiss army knife’ for nuclear medicine
A team of scientists from the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), CERN’s ISOLDE facility and the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) has published results from a preclinical study of new tumour-targeting radiop...
Read article 'Hubble reveals earliest galaxies'
Hubble reveals earliest galaxies
Although the Hubble Space Telescope is more than 22 years old, the regular upgrade of its instruments preserves intact its discovery potential as time goes by. Now, its quest to detect the most d...
Read article 'ALICE takes new directions in charm-suppression studies'
ALICE takes new directions in charm-suppression studies
Using data from the second high-statistics lead–lead (PbPb) run of the LHC, which took place in 2011, the ALICE experiment is taking new directions in studying the interaction of charm quarks wi...
