The Worldwide LHC Computing Grid is taking on a mathematical conjecture first written down by Christian Goldbach in 1742

The polish physicist will serve for a period of one year renewable twice, with a mandate starting on 1 January 2013

The project was awarded "Best Online Event" at an awards ceremony in Berlin, Germany, last week

ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb are looking ahead to the 20-month shutdown from February 2013

The switch - a test for a longer proton-lead run scheduled for January to February 2013 - presented numerous technical challenges

Some 500 particle physicists meeting in Krakow, Poland, this week debated the long-term future of their field at the CERN Council Open Symposium

The collaborations published the latest in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in the journal <em>Physics Letters B</em>

Computer security advice from CERN's head of computer security Stefan Lüders

The particle was the star of Enlightenment - a science-themed ceremony featuring Stephen Hawking and Ian McKellen

Linear accelerator 4 will deliver particles to the Proton-Synchrotron Booster at more than triple the energy the current linac achieves