The world's largest atom smasher is ready to start a new era of science, colliding beams of protons to learn more about the makeup of the universe and its smallest particles. Dubbed the world's ...

While Democrats and Republicans tore each other to shreds over a much-needed health reform bill a couple of weeks back, physicists at the European Center for Nuclear Research were making a different ...

GENEVA – Scientists moved Saturday to prepare the world's largest atom smasher for exploring the depths of matter after successfully restarting the $10 billion machine following more than a year of ...

The $10 billion Big Bang machine under the Swiss-French border may be on the verge of its first scientific breakthroughs after appearing to produce a small amount of the matter that existed in the ...

The silicon tracker for one of the Large Hadron Collider's main detectors, the Compact Muon Solenoid, is installed in December 2007. The LHC's startup is now set for Sept. 10. Click on the image for a ...

SMASH HIT: Researchers yesterday at the Geneva supercollider monitor its history-making proton collisions, powered by a mighty magnet. EPA GENEVA — The world’s largest atom smasher conducted its first ...

The Large Hadron Collider, the world's new and largest particle collider, passed its first major tests by firing two beams of protons in opposite directions around a 17-mile underground ring Wednesday ...

The first spectacular images of atoms smashing together at near-light speed were released Wednesday as part of an experiment scientists say will eventually generate a state of matter that existed a ...

Well, it's not quite the Big Bang machine, but it gets awful close to it. A couple of days ago, physicists from around the world working together at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) got ...

Trouble and delays continue to plague the enormous machine that scientists hope will help them figure out how the universe was created. The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, ...

What is the Large Hadron Collider? It’s the largest machine in the world, built to unlock the deepest secrets of the universe. Located 300 feet below ground along the border between France and ...