Hacker News with Generative AI: CERN

"Physics community has never split like this": row erupts over plans for new LHC (theguardian.com)
Scientists are refining plans to build the world’s biggest machine at a site beneath the Swiss-French border.

Physics, Science, CERN, International Collaboration

29 points by pseudolus 6 days ago | 4 comments

Symmetry between up and down quarks is more broken than expected (phys.org)
In late 2023, Wojciech Brylinski was analyzing data from the NA61/SHINE collaboration at CERN for his thesis when he noticed an unexpected anomaly—a strikingly large imbalance between charged and neutral kaons in argon–scandium collisions.

Physics, Particle Physics, CERN, Scientific Discovery

87 points by terminalbraid 7 days ago | 28 comments

The other 99% (cerncourier.com)
Ultraperipheral collisions are shedding light on gluon saturation, gluonic hotspots and nuclear shadowing.

Physics, Nuclear Physics, Particle Physics, CERN

40 points by rbanffy 57 days ago | 7 comments

CERN's open source heritage: Building blocks to share (cern.ch)
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, has long been a driving force in scientific discovery and technological advancement. Beyond its groundbreaking research, CERN has also quietly championed open-source software for decades. But how to measure CERN’s impact on the global open-source community?

CERN, Open Source, Technology, Scientific Research

37 points by pabs3 58 days ago | 1 comments

Implementing a linear collider facility at CERN (linearcollider.org)
The previous iteration of the European Strategy for Particle Physics (ESPP) gave as its first recommendation: “An electron-positron Higgs factory is the highest-priority next collider.”

Physics, CERN, Particle Accelerators, Scientific Research

41 points by elashri 60 days ago | 6 comments

Antimatter on Wheels (symmetrymagazine.org)
I reach CERN’s Antimatter Factory at 8 a.m. sharp.

Physics, Antimatter, CERN

4 points by sohkamyung 115 days ago | 0 comments

ALICE finds first ever evidence of the antimatter partner of hyperhelium-4 (home.cern)
The finding also represents the first evidence of the heaviest antimatter hypernucleus yet at the LHC

Physics, Antimatter, CERN, Particle Physics, Hypernuclei

280 points by elashri 117 days ago | 83 comments

A particle physics course for high-school students (cern.ch)
This is the pilot version of a particle physics course for high-school students – a research-based product of CERN’s Physics Education Research team.

Physics, Education, High School, CERN

259 points by treetalker 122 days ago | 32 comments

CERN trains AI models to revolutionize cancer treatment (elpais.com)
The artificial intelligence-based innovations that CERN initially developed to improve the maintenance of its particle accelerator have revolutionary applications in the field of health.

CERN, Artificial Intelligence, Cancer Treatment, Science

87 points by geox 182 days ago | 27 comments

How CERN serves 1EB of data via FUSE [video] (kernel-recipes.org)
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, generates vast amounts of data from experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

CERN, Data Management, Physics, Video

252 points by pabs3 186 days ago | 115 comments

LHC experiments at CERN observe quantum entanglement at the highest energy yet (home.cern)
LHC experiments at CERN observe quantum entanglement at the highest energy yet

Physics, Quantum Mechanics, CERN

144 points by gmays 196 days ago | 147 comments

CERN cuts ties with Russia, will expel scientists by December (arstechnica.com)
Since its founding in 1954, high-energy physics laboratory CERN has been a flagship for international scientific collaboration. That commitment has been under strain since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

CERN, International Relations, Science, Russia, Ukraine

9 points by mdp2021 196 days ago | 0 comments

CERN's $17B supercollider in question as top funder criticizes cost (nature.com)

CERN, Physics, Funding, Science, Particle Physics

30 points by cyberlimerence 302 days ago | 9 comments

ROOT: analyzing petabytes of data scientifically (root.cern)

Data Analysis, Scientific Computing, CERN

356 points by z3phyr 308 days ago | 93 comments

CERN's Exabyte Data Center (westerndigital.com)

CERN, Data Centers, Storage, Science, Technology

58 points by kungfudoi 339 days ago | 23 comments

World Wide Web (1991) (cern.ch)

Internet History, CERN, Web Development

279 points by geuis 343 days ago | 125 comments