This week, the latest result from the Large Hadron Collider, but is it the shake-up that physics needs?

Let's hope that they will find something that deviates from the standard model, because that's

where the interesting physics actually begins. And the unconventional life of neurologist Oliver

Sacks. He managed to knock off a bottle of Equivet in the course of reading,

and this is the heroic bed in the course of reading James Roes's Ulysses,

which says to yourself, this is not someone who does things by halves.

Plus scientific successes and struggles in India.

This is the Nature podcast from May the 14th, 2015.

I'm Kerry Smith. And I'm Noah Baker.

The Large Hadron Collider is getting ready to power up again after two years of upgrades.

But during its downtime, physicists haven't been idle. They've been analysing data from its last

round of experiments. Nature this week publishing data from its last round of experiments.

Nature this week publishes some results from a team of thousands at the LHC, and as Adam Levy

has been finding out, what they really want to do is kill the standard model, the best theory of how

our universe works. The Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, is one of the grandest scientific experiments ever created.

It's a 27 kilometre long underground loop.

Its job is to accelerate two beams of particles close to the speed of light in opposing directions,

and then smash them together in a head-on collision.

This may seem like wanton destruction, but the aim is to create new particles and study

never-before-seen interactions. What the LHC finds could transform how we think about our universe.

For decades, our best theory of particle physics has been the standard model. The standard model

explains all the subatomic particles known and three of the four forces.

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