Hadron collider

Cern's Large Hadron Collider

The Large Hadron Collider fired mankind into a "new era of science" in March last year producing the world's first highenergy particle collision.

The Large Hadron collider is the most powerful particle collider and the largest machine in the world.

CERN - European Center for Nuclear Research - Large Hadron Collider, Geneva, Switzerland. Photo by James Brittain/Corbis

What is supersymmetry? Physicist Lawrence Krauss helps you understand the theory that could solve many of the most troublesome problems in physics.

In the ongoing quest to unlock the secrets of the universe, physicists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) are looking into the future and thinking big — real big. After five years of development, the research organization has unveiled conceptual plans for a particle accelerator called the "Future Circular Collider" (FCC) sited under the Swiss-French border. A successor to the group's 27 kilometer-long (16-mile long) Large Hadron Collider, the FCC would feature a…

What happens if you stick your head in a particle accelerator? The Russian scientist Anatoli Bugorski did – and survived

After years of subatomic particle busting and number crunching, researchers at CERN now know the mass of the W boson particle1. The findings are part of the ATLAS experiment, which uses CERN’s