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“Don’t you dare kill my project.”My phone interview with a senior official at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) had started with bland, yet polite, responses. But it took a sharp turn toward audible agitation and hostility as I raised my final question.

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‘It is imperative that young people in Africa are motivated to learn physics and be part of big science projects’

Date Time Supporting talented students with ATLAS PhD Grant The 2021 ATLAS PhD Grant award ceremony. From left to right: (top) Peter Jenni, Richa Nevatia and Matteo Castoldi; (middle) Alexandre Zeller, Humphry Tlou and Ana Luisa Carvalho; (bottom) Charlotte Warakaulle, Josefina Alconada and Mihai Nasulea. (Image: CERN) The ATLAS PhD Grant is a flagship programme of the CERN & Society Foundation. It was established in 2013 by former ATLAS spokespersons Fabiola Gianot...

Professor Murray Gell-Mann in the ATLAS cavern in 2012. Gell-Mann proposed the quark model and the name "quark" in 1964 and received the Nobel Prize in...

Haroon Mirza, Jack Jelfs and GAIKA conduct a shamanic ritual in The Wave Epoch An audiovisual accompaniment to the concept album of the same name, set in a distant future in which the forgotten remains of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN have been rediscovered. Back in 2018 artists Haroon Mirza and Jack Jelfs took part in a residency at CERN, the largest particle physics lab in the world and the home of the Large Hadron Collider. It was during their engagement with the ideas and technology inv...

Einstein and Heisenberg Authors: Revisits Einstein’s 100-year-old revolutionary theory of gravitational waves and Heisenbergs contributions to quantum physics, in light of recent groundbreaking experiments in the field that prove these waves exist Written by an internationally renowned experimental physicist Appeals to anybody curious about the history behind technology we take for granted, from small objects like computers and lasers to larger projects like spacecraft and nuc...