CERN Accelerating science

Science is closing in on the most elusive thing in the Universe.

On Saturday, 12^th November, a group of 240 young girls aged 11-14, sporting white lab coats, took the Science building of the University of Geneva by storm.

The 10- and 11-year-old children of Geneva town hall employees were allowed to skip classes on 10th November to participate in the nation-wide “Futur en Tous Genres” day and find out about different career prospects.

CMS is an experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that is searching for new physics

The CMS detector is a 5 storey-high digital camera recording hundreds of images per second of debris from LHC particle collisions

At about half-past five in the evening on Sunday, 30^th October, an e-mail from Run Coordination to the CMS collaboration said:

Latest news from CERN, the LHC and Heavy Ion collisions ...

Physicists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are analysing the results of their first attempt at colliding protons and lead ions. Further attempts at proton–lead collisions are expected over the next few weeks...

The source of energy for most of the life on our planet originates from proton-proton collisions at the core of the Sun, which occur at an energy (or temperature) about a billion times less than the collision energy of the LHC.

The Large Hadron Collider will spend four weeks probing the conditions of the early universe in better detail than ever before, as it takes a break from the hunt for the Higgs boson...