Neowin News Feed for: Lhc

CERN contributes 10,000 computer cores to the Folding at Home project

Ather Fawaz — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 06:58:01 +0000

CERN has contributed 10,000 computer cores from its main data center to the Folding@home project becoming the 87th biggest contributor. The project now has almost 2.5 exaFLOPS of computing power. Read more...

Neural networks are now being used to track exotic particles at CERN

Ather Fawaz — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 16:30:02 +0000

Researchers have trained an artificial neural network to identify atypical and ephemeral experimental signatures resulting from proton-proton collisions inside the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Read more...

The LHC has just been connected to the High-Luminosity LHC, and other updates from CERN

Ather Fawaz — Fri, 13 Dec 2019 17:18:01 +0000

Workers have just connected the LHC to its successor, the High-Luminosity LHC. However, the end of Long Shutdown 2 has been extended to May 2021 and Run 3 has been extended by one year to 2024. Read more...

CERN Open Days is a chance to witness the world of particle accelerators

Ather Fawaz — Tue, 03 Sep 2019 04:44:01 +0000

Leveraging the downtime for the Large Hadron Collider, the general public will be able to explore the laboratory and partake in over 150 activities planned by CERN on 14 and 15 September. Read more...

This week in science: A statue-like dinosaur fossil, a new accelerator at CERN, and more

Gabriel Nunes — Mon, 15 May 2017 04:48:01 +0000

This week an incredibly well-preserved nodosaur fossil was unveiled, a new accelerator was launched at CERN, SpaceX tested a Falcon Heavy rocket, and Microsoft Research revealed Project Emma. Read more...

This week in science: first SpaceX military launch for the US, LHC restarted, and more

Gabriel Nunes — Sun, 07 May 2017 19:20:01 +0000

SpaceX has launched its first rocket carrying a classified military payload for the US, an astronomer suggests we should search for extinct alien life in our solar system, and the LHC has restarted. Read more...