LEP, and run the risk that another high-energy-physics laboratory will nab the Higgs first.
CERN, the European particle physics laboratory in Geneva, physicists are now campaigning for its successor.
Rob Gold, from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, was also watching outside the mission-control center.
CERN, the European particle physics laboratory near Geneva, will create particles with greater masses than have yet been seen.
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Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory, a leading space research center, recently conducted feasibility studies into junk-zapping lasers and garbage-collecting rockets.
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The experiment on cloud formation also seems likely to undermine the particle physics laboratory's reputation for pursuing only blue skies research.
The mission operations centre is the John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
So physicists are eagerly seeking more, and two groups working at Fermilab, a particle-physics laboratory near Chicago, think they have found a candidate.
Mark Showalter is from the SETI Institute, and Hal Weaver is a researcher at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland.
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The officials at the European particle-physics laboratory CERN, meanwhile, are tight-lipped.
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"There is no sector of society that has not been transformed by the invention, in a physics laboratory, of the Web, " said Rolf Heuer, CERN's director-general.
They are known as fermions, after Enrico Fermi, the physicist who built the first nuclear reactor, and who also gave his name to Fermilab, a particle-physics laboratory near Chicago.
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But that has now changed, with the preservation of several hundred such atoms for several minutes by Jeffrey Hangst and his colleagues at CERN, the main European particle-physics laboratory near Geneva.
Data from NEAR could help answer questions about the origin and composition of asteroids, comets and the solar system, according to the mission managers at the Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland.
CERN, the European high-energy physics laboratory near Geneva.
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The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory have partnered together on a successful trial for a brain-computer interface that allows a person to control a robotic arm using only their thoughts.
Mr Gove was referring to the concept of a global system that would allow researchers anywhere to share information which was first proposed by Sir Tim while he was working at the Cern particle physics laboratory in Geneva in the 1980s.
Athene Donald, Professor of Experimental Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, is one of only five exceptional female scientists from around the globe to receive an award this year.
Note: CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is the world's leading laboratory for particle physics.
Fermilab is America's premier national laboratory for particle physics research.
G6 mainframe computer depends on the use of silicon chips with copper connections that draw on solid-state physics research done in the firm's laboratory in the 1980s.
The STFC was formed as a new research council in April 2007 through a merger of the Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC) and the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PParc).
The STFC was formed as a new research council on 1 April 2007 through a merger of the Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC) and the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PParc).
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And in the current issue of Applied Physics Letters, a group led by Haroun Ahmed at the Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory in Britain reports another vital step, a single-electron transistor that, for the first time, amplifies its input signal (though only by a factor of 3.7, several hundred times more weakly than a conventional transistor does).
For a quarter of a century before CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) began working in earnest in 2009 the Tevatron, at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, near Chicago, dominated high-energy physics.
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