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Nature 440, 268-269 (16 March 2006) | doi:10.1038/440268a; Published online 15 March 2006

Particle physics: Let the games begin

Jenny Hogan1

  1. Jenny Hogan is a reporter based in Nature's London office.

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A series of mental challenges is helping physicists to prepare for the strange data they may get when the next particle accelerator goes live. Jenny Hogan joins the work-out.

Normally, the trick to learning something at a scientific meeting is to listen to the key lectures. But one afternoon last month, in a conference room at CERN, the European particle-physics lab near Geneva, physicist Matt Strassler managed to convince several researchers that they might learn more if they left the lecture room.

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