Engineers and technicians have started opening the 14,000-tonne CMS detector, to let detector physicists like David Barney get to work inside

In preparation for a physics run in 2015, the source for Linac 3 is being adapted to carry argon ions

The $3 million Fundamental Physics Prize was awarded last night to theorist Alexander Polyakov of Princeton University

Watch Jean-Phillipe Tock of the Technology department explain how CERN technicians are upgrading interconnections on the LHC

Watch Jean-Phillipe Tock of the Technology department explain how CERN technicians are upgrading interconnections on the Large Hadron Collider

The inaugural Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering went to five engineers whose work led to the internet and the World Wide Web

The ATLAS collaboration has just released four animations showing how signals of new particles can emerge from LHC collision data

The CERN toolbar is a branding element for CERN websites, a 'Sign in' button, a link to the directory, and a link back home

On 24 February 1983 the journal Physics Letters B published a paper by the UA1 collaboration describing the discovery of the W boson

On 24 February 1983 the journal <em>Physics Letters B</em> published a paper by the UA1 collaboration describing the discovery of the W boson

On Saturday at 8.25am the crew in the CERN Control Centre extracted the beams from the LHC, ending the machine’s first three-year running period

The CERN Data Centre has collected more than 100 petabytes of data – equivalent to roughly 700 years of full HD-quality movies