As the CERN Particle Collider is set to increase energy, CNN's Atika Shubert looks at some of the machine's problems.
Is the Large Hadron Collider being sabotaged from the future? Or merely by birds? CNN.com's Elizabeth Landau reports.
"The LHC is back," the European Organization for Nuclear Research announced triumphantly Friday, as the world's largest particle accelerator resumed operation more than a year after an electrical failure shut it down.
Is the Large Hadron Collider being sabotaged from the future? Or merely by birds?
A man arrested in France on suspicion of links to terrorist organizations is a physicist who was working with the agency known for being home of the Large Hadron Collider -- the world's most powerful particle accelerator.
On a recent episode of "South Park," Mr. Marsh steals a particle accelerator magnet so his son, Stan, can win the Pinewood Derby. The magnet's power results in an alien encounter, and chaos ensues.
Deep underground on the border between France and Switzerland, the world's largest particle accelerator complex will explore the world on smaller scales than any human invention has explored before.
Groundbreaking science experiment recreates the Big Bang to unlock secrets of the universe. CNN's Atika Shubert reports.
Visiting a particle accelerator is like a religious experience, at least for Nima Arkani-Hamed.
Twenty four hours before the greatest scientific experiment of our time gets underway at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, political and scientific dignitaries assembled at a site a few hundred miles north east of the French/Swiss border at a site in Germany to inaugurate another groundbreaking engineering test.
Damage to the world's largest atom smasher will take much of the planned winter shutdown to repair but it will be back in action as planned next spring, a spokesman for the operator said
Nine days after the successful test run of the world's largest particle accelerator in Geneva, the machine has been shut down for repairs
The unique qualities of the world's largest particle collider mean that the meltdown of a small electrical connection could delay its groundbreaking research until next year
CNN's Becky Anderson goes inside the tunnels of the biggest scientific experiment ever attempted.
Scientists Wednesday applauded as one of the most ambitious experiments ever conceived got successfully underway, with protons being fired around a 27-kilometer (17-mile) tunnel deep beneath the border of France and Switzerland in an attempt to unlock the secrets of the universe.
The world's biggest accelerator fires up (Earth is safe so far) in an effort to unlock some of nature's most enduring mysteries
The world's biggest physics experiment has succeeded in its first major test as a beam of protons was successfully fired all the way around a 17-mile tunnel beneath the Swiss-French border.
Scientists are dismissing critics who warn that the Large Hadron Collider could create Earth-swallowing black holes
A giant accelerator searches for a tiny and elusive particle that is key to understanding the origins of the universe
The father of a theoretical subatomic particle dubbed "the God particle" says he's almost sure it will be confirmed in the next year in a race between powerful research equipment in the United States and Europe
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Last December, a colossal wave swept across the entire solar surface within minutes, bulldozing everything in its path. The rare tsunami-like shockwave formed on the heels of a major flare that erupted from an Earth-size sunspot 15 minutes earlier.
Space weather forecasters revised their predictions for storminess after a major flare erupted on the sun overnight threatening damage to communication systems and power grids while offering up the wonder of Northern Lights.
The European Union, along with six other nations have signed a €10 billion (US$12.8 billion) pact to build the world's most advanced nuclear fusion reactor aimed at developing a cheaper, cleaner and safer energy source to replace fossil fuels. We tell you what you need to know about the deal.
In a cosmic-sized cavern 100 meters beneath the French-Swiss border, scientists from around the globe are making final preparations for the largest experiment the world has ever seen in an attempt to unearth the origins of the Universe.
Business 2.0: The Next Disruptorsupdated: Thu Nov 09 2006 09:50:00
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Fortune: Zapping cancer cellsupdated: Mon Nov 06 2006 15:32:00
It's called a gantry, and it's downright eerie. An assemblage of steel and cables mounted some 16 feet above the floor of a concrete chamber, it's more than 30 feet in length and width, with ends bracketed by 17-foot steel wheels resting on double rollers. The gantry weighs 190 tons, about as much as a diesel locomotive, but when it begins to revolve there is neither creak nor hum. As it rolls counterclockwise a bit past the halfway point, stops, returns to center, and then rotates the other way, it could be a "Star Wars" battle cruiser maneuvering soundlessly in space.
Business 2.0: Disrupting deathupdated: Fri Sep 15 2006 16:33:00
The Disruptor: NanoLife Sciences
When the world's biggest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, opens next year near Geneva, the focal point of the high-energy physics world will shift from U.S. soil for the first time in half a century. But America's brightest are busy devising a rescue plan.
Fortune: Quantum leapupdated: Tue Aug 01 2006 13:21:00
She awakes early on the morning of April 10, 2030, in the capable hands of her suburban Chicago apartment. All night, microscopic sensors in her bedside tables have monitored her breathing, heart r...
Fortune: Quantum leapupdated: Wed Jul 26 2006 11:55:00
She awakes early on the morning of April 10, 2030, in the capable hands of her suburban Chicago apartment. All night, microscopic sensors in her bedside tables have monitored her breathing, heart rate, and brain activity.
The Hubble Space Telescope has caught the most detailed view of the Crab Nebula, revealing the intricate epitaph of a long-dead star.
Had he followed in his mother's footsteps, Dr. Herman D. Suit might today be breaking horses. But long ago, he traded the wide open, dusty plains of west Texas for the narrow brick canyons of Boston's West End and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH).
If a magnetar flew past Earth within 100,000 miles, the intense magnetic field of the exotic object would destroy the data on every credit card on the planet.
Startled astronomers peered through an apparent crack in the expanding bubble from an exploded star to glimpse what may be the youngest black hole ever detected.
Ah, the legendary romance of winemaking. Apple-cheeked peasant girls treading grapes under a harvest moon. Intimate tastings. And, of course, multispectral imaging and neutron probes. Huh?
Using a new technique astronomers have found 10 apparent black holes near the center of the Andromeda galaxy, the nearest large spiral galaxy to our own.
Black holes may not be the smooth, featureless gravitational gluttons long thought to completely devour any matter or information that strays too close.
Scientists have obtained a rare glimpse of the chaotic environment just miles from the surface of an explosive corpse of a star that is slowly consuming its companion.
With the possible exception of fine wine or a Rolls-Royce, products start depreciating the moment they're sold. But at Theragenics--a Buford, Ga., company that makes implantable, radioactive "seeds...
One day last August a U.S. Customs inspector in Miami studying an X-ray image of a cargo container just in from the Middle East saw something that gave him pause. The image, made as part of a routi...
With America's highways and bridges crumbling and Kuwait's infrastructure in a shambles, U.S. construction giants are poised to profit hugely from a multibillion-dollar rebuilding boom. Among those...
We all think we know about the computer revolution. But not many of us understand how it happened -- that it resulted from discoveries about the very essence of matter, profound revelations that mo...
WHY IS this scientist smiling? Because he may have won a small prize in the cold fusion lottery. No, not those $25 boxes of pennies -- the pennies are there to shield his instruments from any gamma...
What do you do for an encore after winning a Nobel Prize? Mel Schwartz, 56, a former Columbia University professor who won the physics honor last fall, is hoping for similar accolades in business. ...
LEVINE. Boesky. Siegel. Wall Street's gallery of rogues keeps growing, with every indication of more to come. But while the financial community waits nervously for the next insider trading scandal ...
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