The world's largest atom smasher is ready to start a new era of science, colliding beams of protons to learn more about the makeup of the universe and its smallest particles. Dubbed the world's ...

Physicists from around the globe launched a major program on Wednesday aimed at converting the LHC "Big Bang" particle collider at CERN near Geneva into a vastly more powerful cosmic research machine ...

GENEVA – Scientists moved Saturday to prepare the world's largest atom smasher for exploring the depths of matter after successfully restarting the $10 billion machine following more than a year of ...

The silicon tracker for one of the Large Hadron Collider's main detectors, the Compact Muon Solenoid, is installed in December 2007. The LHC's startup is now set for Sept. 10. Click on the image for a ...

As a rule, physics rarely makes news, but it did this past week after equipment malfunctions delayed for several months the start up of one of the biggest science experiments in history. We are ...

GENEVA – The world's largest atom smasher broke the record for proton acceleration Monday, sending beams of the particles at 1.18 trillion electron volts around the massive machine. The Large Hadron ...

Trouble and delays continue to plague the enormous machine that scientists hope will help them figure out how the universe was created. The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, ...

GENEVA — Scientists have repaired the world’s largest atom smasher and plan by this weekend to restart the machine that was launched with great fanfare last year before its spectacular failure from a ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - Physicists from around the globe launched a major program on Wednesday aimed at converting the LHC "Big Bang" particle collider at CERN near Geneva into a vastly more powerful ...