CERN Accelerating science

This episode of the Colliding Particles series looks back at the July Higgs search update

Proposals to build colliders that churn out the new Higgs-like particle are gathering momentum. But what would these colliders look like?

The European Southern Observatory, founded on 5 October 1962, has close links with CERN

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

Heavy-ion experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will present their latest results at the Quark Matter 2012 conference

Today marks 100 years since Victor Hess made last of series of balloon flights leading to the discovery of cosmic rays

In July 1913, Niels Bohr published the first of a series of three papers introducing his model of the atom

Our understanding of the universe is about to change…

The Extra Low Energy Antiproton ring (ELENA) will further slow antiprotons from the Antiproton Decelerator, to make them easier to trap

On the final day of Quantum Chromodynamics week at Moriond, speakers emphasized the possibility of new physics with the LHC at 4TeV

A variety of new measurements presented at Moriond are helping physicists to close in on the mass of the top quark