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Physics World December 2024

Physics World December 2024

Smashing times: planning the future of high-energy physics

With CERN turning 70 this year, Tulika Bose, Philip Burrows and Tara Shears discuss proposals for the next big particle collider that would study the Higgs boson in unprecedented detail. Claire Malone looks at the potential benefits of AI in helping us to communicate science, while Rosie de Laune from the ISIS muon and neutron source examines the power of neutron scattering as the lab turns 40. Also this month: Festive Reviews, measuring a PhD in cups of espressos, and test your mettle in our end-of-year quiz.

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Eileen Collins attending a survival training course at Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma

Trailblazer: astronaut Eileen Collins on space and lifelong learning

smoke emission from an oil refinery analysis

UK plans carbon capture revival

Collage styled urban graphic for Artificial Intelligence concept. Large robotic figure looms over crowd of silhouetted people feature

Trust me? I’m an AI!

Fractal art created from particle paths in the Large Hadron Collider feature

Planning the future of high-energy physics

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Proving Chadwick wrong

GHZ atomic clock team research update

Entangled states boost atomic clocks

Mark Thomson at CERN news

Mark Thomson to be next CERN boss

Design Students With Teacher Working In CAD/3D Printing Lab opinion

Consider the student

Abstract concept of time opinion

Prodigal twin

Solar cells in space opinion

Space solar can work

Abstract representation of quantum entanglement review

Fighting quantum apathy

Tycho Brahe statue overlooking the Østervold Observatory in Denmark review

A ramble in the Scientific Revolution

Scuba diver under water review

Gravity falls down on falling down

Close-up of a refreshing hot cup of a coffee at a cafe. careers

A PhD in cups of espresso

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