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Sixty Years ago Today: IAEA Released its First Safety Standard
It was on this day in 1958, barely a year after its establishment, when the IAEA released its first publication: the Safety Series No. 1 'Safe Handling of Radioisotopes'. Continue reading
LHC Noir
A proton describes its final moments in the Large Hadron Collider.
During its second run, between 2015 and 2018, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN collided about 16 million billion particle pairs. This is the story of one of them.
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C’è un nuovo ingrediente per la vita primordiale

A date with science – Una settimana all’insegna della sostenibilità, dell’archeologia e della fisica
Si avvicina la fine dell’anno e continuano gli eventi scientifici per dare seguito al grande successo della Notte Europea dei Ricercatori 2018, coordinata da Frascati Scienza. Continua il nostro viaggio tra le attività culturali più interessanti della settimana che si terranno nelle varie città d’Italia.
Iniziamo con “L’isola della sostenibilità”, il grande progetto in cui enti [...] Continue reading
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Nuclear Security in Big Cities
Large, bustling cities are home to billions around world. In them, people often congregate in dense crowds, for example during rush hour. Continue reading
CMS Observes Associated Production Of Top Quarks And Z Bosons
My CMS colleague Didar Dobur, who chairs the "Top Properties" working group in the experiment, presented today the first observation of the process whereby a top quark is produced in association to a Z boson. I could follow the presentation by videocon... Continue reading