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SMU physicists at CERN find hints of long sought after Higgs boson — dubbed...
Subatomic particle can explain why matter has mass In a giant game of hide and seek, physicists say there are indications they finally may have found evidence of the long sought after fundamental...
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Observed! SMU’s LHC physicists confirm new particle; Higgs ‘God particle’...
Physicists from SMU and around the globe were euphoric Wednesday with the revelation that a new particle consistent with the Higgs boson “God particle” has been observed. Described as a great triumph...
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SMU physicists celebrate Nobel Prize for discovery of Higgs boson “god particle”
SMU joins nearly 2,000 physicists from U.S. institutions — including 89 U.S. universities and seven U.S. DOE labs — that participate in discovery experiments Book a live interview To book a live or...
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Physicists tune Large Hadron Collider to find “sweet spot” in high-energy...
New launch of the world’s most powerful particle accelerator is the most stringent test yet of our accepted theories of how subatomic particles work and interact. Start up of the world’s largest...
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1st proton collisions at the world’s largest science experiment expected to...
“No significant signs of new physics with the present data yet but it takes only one significant deviation in the data to change everything.” — Albert De Roeck, CERN First collisions of protons at the...
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SMU 2015 research efforts broadly noted in a variety of ways for...
SMU scientists and their research have a global reach that is frequently noted, beyond peer publications and media mentions. More SMU Research news California 6th grade science books: Climate change a...
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SMU physicists: CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is once again smashing protons,...
CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and its experiments are back in action, now taking physics data for 2016 to get an improved understanding of fundamental physics. Following its annual winter break,...
View ArticleCTNewsJunkie.com: Ignoring Science At Our Own Peril
“A scientific theory is a very well-tested explanation, built from facts, confirmed hypotheses, and inferences.” — SMU physicist Stephen Sekula An Op-Ed in the online Connecticut news outlet...
View ArticleA Total Eclipse of the First Day of School
Dedman College, SMU Physics Department host Great American Solar Eclipse 2017 viewing Thousands of students, faculty and townspeople showed up to campus Monday, Aug. 21 to observe the Great American...
View ArticleExploring the mysteries of the universe: Reality in the Shadows
New knowledge has caused us to reconsider many previous conclusions about what the universe is and how it works. Despite centuries of scientific advancements, there is much about the universe that...
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SMU Physicist Explains Significance of Latest Cern Discovery Related to the...
Stephen Sekula says observation of the Higgs particle transforming into bottom quarks confirms the 20th-century recipe for mass DALLAS (SMU) – Scientists conducting physics experiments at CERN’s Large...
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