World / Science & Health Jun 16, 2018
CERN starts work to boost collider's power tenfold, shining brighter light on physics mysteries
The European physics research center CERN launched an upgrade of its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on Friday, six years after the huge particle accelerator solved an enduring riddle by confirming the existence of the elusive Higgs boson. Staffers said the overhaul will boost the "luminosity" ...
World / Science & Health Jul 6, 2016
Beyond Higgs boson: Physicists set to unveil collider's biggest data trove yet
Scientists at Europe's physics research center, CERN, are preparing to unwrap the biggest trove of data yet from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), three years after they confirmed the existence of the elusive Higgs boson. "In the life of accelerator physics there are few moments ...
World / Science & Health Dec 17, 2014
Dark matter hunt begins at CERN's 'cappuccino-a-year' atom smasher
Finding one of the building blocks of the universe is a tough act to follow. That's the task confronting Fabiola Gianotti when she takes over as head of CERN, the Geneva-based atom-smasher that discovered the Higgs boson particle and landed the Nobel Prize in physics ...
World / Science & Health Apr 4, 2013
The first results from a $2 billion instrument aboard the International Space Station offer tentative support for the theory that exotic dark matter, invisible but abundant, permeates the universe.