One week of LHC operation is being devoted to scrubbing the beam pipes to eliminate electron clouds, which can destabilise the beam

Google Street Views of many CERN sites are now available directly from Google Maps

Researchers in Gran Sasso, Italy, have detected a tau neutrino in the muon-neutrino beam from CERN

Two teams of high-school students have been selected to travel to the laboratory in September

Physicists are using LHC detector technology to retrieve Native American music from old recordings

The first planned technical stop of the LHC starts on Monday, with five days of maintenance work scheduled for the accelerator and its experiments

From cloud chambers to 3D animations, physicists use a host of ingenious techniques to reveal subatomic particles too tiny to see

The Large Hadron Collider is colliding particles at unprecedented energy, marking the start of the accelerator's second physics run

Follow all the action live on our blog "LHC Season 2: New frontiers in physics"

On 3 June, experiments at the LHC are set to collect their first physics data in two years, marking the start of the accelerator's second run