The Large Hadron Collider is going dark, and it is not the ending it sounds like. Dr. Samantha Yammine walks through what a decade-old Higgs boson discovery has to do with the way your own brain gets imaged, and why a planned shutdown is actually a four-year upgrade.

The Higgs boson never shows up directly in a detector. Scientists infer it from what is missing in a collision, then compare that to a theory first proposed in the 1960s, decades before anyone could test it.

Yammine connects the physics back to her own field, tracing how tools built for particle detection at CERN now show up in medical imaging used on the brain, and makes the case for staying curious about science at any level.

Topics: Large Hadron Collider, Higgs boson, particle physics, brain imaging, CERN

GUEST: Samantha Yammine | http://samanthayammine.com | @‌science.sam

Originally aired on 2026-07-17

The Large Hadron Collider is going dark, and it is not the ending it sounds like. Dr. Samantha Yammine walks through what a decade-old Higgs boson discovery has to do with the way your own brain gets imaged, and why a planned shutdown is actually a four-year upgrade.
The Higgs boson never shows up directly in a detector. Scientists infer it from what is missing in a collision, then compare that to a theory first proposed in the 1960s, decades before anyone could test it.
Yammine connects the physics back to her own field, tracing how tools built for particle detection at CERN now show up in medical imaging used on the brain, and makes the case for staying curious about science at any level.
Topics: Large Hadron Collider, Higgs boson, particle physics, brain imaging, CERN
GUEST: Samantha Yammine |<a href="http://samanthayammine.com"> http://samanthayammine.com</a> | @&zwnj;science.sam
Originally aired on&nbsp;2026-07-17

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From politics and pop culture to mental health, technology, and everyday life, this podcast is where night owls, deep thinkers, and curious minds come to connect. Featuring expert guests, passionate callers, and Shane&rsquo;s signature style&mdash;thoughtful, fearless, and refreshingly real.
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