Open data from the Large Hadron Collider sparks new discovery

Back in 2014, CERN released the data from its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments onto an online portal called the Open Data portal. It was an unprecedented move, making data from the LHC’s experiments available to those who don’t have access to a particle accelerator. It’s not completely up-to-date; there’s a three-year embargo on results, […]

Does the Large Hadron Collider Actually Disprove Ghosts?

Image: Har Gobind Singh Khalsa/Flickr The Large Hadron Collider sits underground, spanning over five miles across beneath the bucolic suburbs of Geneva, Switzerland. This metal behemoth serves to try and understand the most basic building blocks of our universe. The question stands, then: if ghosts are real, shouldn’t the LHC have found them? Advertisement That, […]