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Do we owe our existence to weird 鈥榲irtual鈥� particles?

When considering what makes up a human body, a physicist drills down beyond the atomic level. Columnist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein explores the not-exactly-real particles that allow the stuff we鈥檙e made of to hang together

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The weirdness of neutrinos could completely rewrite particle physics

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At CERN’s Antimatter Factory, scientists probe the mysteries of matter

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A portrait of Mark Thomson - a middle-aged man in glasses, smiling - with a background collage. The collage contains particle sprays, the LHC, and road signs from the CERN campus

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CERN鈥檚 new chief on the gamble that could fix our picture of reality

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Frank Close: Finding the building blocks of the universe

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300-year-old experiment could become world’s best dark matter detector

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Physicists resolve a long-standing puzzle over the size of a proton

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Particles seen emerging from empty space for first time

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Cracked blue bowl with equations, stars, planets and galaxies decorating its exterior. It is cracked but golden glue sticks it back together.

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We’re solving the fundamental mystery of how reality is glued together

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A once-fantastical collider could answer physics鈥� biggest mysteries

The muon collider聽was once dismissed as impossible, but is now聽gaining聽steam聽as the successor to the Large Hadron Collider. If聽built,聽it could offer a聽new window聽to聽reality聽

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Particle discovered at CERN solves a 20-year-old mystery

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Our elegant universe: rethinking nature鈥檚 deepest principle

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Ghostly particles might just break our understanding of the universe

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Inside the wild experiments physicists would do with zero limits

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