Big-bang machine’s battle plan set

The schedule is taking shape for the startup of the world’s biggest particle-smasher — and for the lawsuit seeking to shut it down.

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Atom-smasher fears spark lawsuit

The builders of the world's biggest particle collider are being sued in federal court over fears that the experiment might create globe-gobbling black holes or never-before-seen strains of matter that would destroy the planet.

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Science fiction movie review: Sunshine

The true star of the movie (Image: Fox Searchlight Pictures)

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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has made history and become most powerful particle accelerator on the planet.

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Scientists are preparing the world's largest atom smasher to explore the depths of matter after successfully restarting the $10 billion machine following more than a year of repairs.

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There were emotional scenes last night at the headquarters of underground international atom-smasher science alliance CERN, as joyful boffins celebrated the successful restarting of the Large Hadron Collider

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Collected at this site are some photographs of the repairs, and of the LHC and some of its experiments in various stages of construction.

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CNN's Atika Shubert reports on the CERN Hadron Collider, theorized by some to have been sabotaged from the future.

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So the Large Hadron Collider has been shut down yet again – this time on account of a bird dropping a piece of a bagel onto some sensitive outdoor machinery.

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The reason physicists are so excited about the LHC, though, is that the kind of supersymmetry that best solves the problem with the Higgs will become visible at the higher energies the LHC will explore.

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From Eureka, our new monthly science magazine: The bestselling author visits CERN and meets the scientists who are hoping to unlock the secrets of the Universe

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The rehabilitation of the beleaguered Large Hadron Collider was on hold tonight after the failure of one of its powerful cooling units caused by an errant chunk of baguette.

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...the troubled collider is being sabotaged by its own future.

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the charges against the "mild-mannered, deeply religious" French Algerian were stunning. Authorities say Dr.

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The scientist suspected of plotting terrorist attacks on nuclear sites in France is a brilliant, internationally known physicist who has worked on research projects in Britain and the US, the Independent has reported.

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France has arrested a researcher at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) for suspected links with al-Qaeda, officials have said. The 32-year-old man of Algerian descent was one of two brothers detained in the south-east town of Vienne on Thursday.

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The Collider That Doesn't

From a report in The New York Times, Giant Particle Collider Fizzles: The biggest, most expensive physics machine in the world is riddled with thousands of bad electrical connections.

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The biggest, most expensive physics machine in the world is riddled with thousands of bad electrical connections.

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A senior Vatican delegation visited the world's biggest nuclear physics laboratory, proclaiming that true faith has no problems with science.

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After the initial euphoria of finally proving the existence of parallel universes, scientists at CERN, the world's largest particle physics laboratory, were today beginning to voice open disappointment that the alternative reality they had discovered was merely a slightly less  …

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Austria is pulling out of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), Science Minister Johannes Hahn announced Thursday, citing budget concerns.

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Engineers have finished the major work of fixing the broken "Big Bang" machine, the largest scientific instrument ever built.

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It all began 20 years ago with a frustrated 29-year-old programmer who had a passion for order. More Articles

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Some interesting factoids of how the Web started. Enjoy!

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Stephen Hawking barely needs an introduction, but his recent direction does. He is packaging the universe for the younger generation. With his daughter Lucy Hawking, he has branched out into writing children's books. More Articles

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Europe's particle physics lab, Cern, is losing ground rapidly in the race to discover the elusive Higgs boson, or "God particle", its US rival claims. The particle, whose existence has been predicted by theoreticians, would help to explain why matter has mass.

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Cern is losing ground rapidly in the race to discover the elusive Higgs boson, its American rival claims. Fermilab say the odds of their Tevatron accelerator finding it first are now 50-50 at worst, and up to 96% at best.

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A team of theoretical and experimental physicists, with participants from Case Western Reserve University, have designed a new black hole simulator called BlackMax to search for evidence that extra dimensions might exist in the universe.

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