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Particle physicists gather at CERN to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Higgs boson discovery

Physics World

The event took place in the very same venue in which the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at the LHC announced on 4 July 2012 the discovery of a new particle with features consistent with that of the Higgs boson. HL-LHC is expected to begin in 2029 and operate until 2041. ATLAS and CMS measured the Higgs boson’s mass to be 125 GeV.

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In Chicago, Flooding Overwhelmingly Strikes Communities of Color

Circle of Blue

In the early 1970s, Chicago embarked on one of the region’s most ambitious and expensive infrastructure projects to date: the Tunnel and Reservoir Project or “Deep Tunnel,” a massive storage system that will be able to hold more than 20 billion gallons of water when it’s finished in 2029. . A Feat of Engineering or “Missed Opportunity”?

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