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Cern postpones LHC upgrade as experiments continue

...The Large Hadron Collider, Cern's particle accelerator straddling the border of Switzerland and France, is due to shut... Read more

2 February, 2011 by Stephen Shankland

Cern hopes for proof of extra dimensions in 2011

...accelerators. Fabiola Gianotti, lead researcher on the Atlas experiment — one of six particle-accelerator experiments taking place at Cern — said in a report published on... Read more

17 November, 2010 by Ben Woods
A tour of the Large Hadron Collider

A tour of the Large Hadron Collider

...LHC's primary control centre is used to monitor and run the particle accelerator. This pod of screens is matched by four others for other... Read more

7 July, 2010 by Stephen Shankland

CERN kicks off LHC's 2012 Higgs hunt

...and the resulting 8 TeV collision energy is the most powerful the particle accelerator has managed yet. In 2011's experiments, collisions went up to... Read more

5 April, 2012

Fancy 180Gbps broadband? Researchers claim network speed world record

...One possible application will be transferring data from the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator experiments at Cern, which is distributed to a global grid of... Read more

15 December, 2011 by Nick Heath

Test confirms Cern's faster-than-light particles

...researchers clocked the subatomic particles travelling through the Earth from the Cern particle accelerator near Geneva, Switzerland, to Italy's Infn Gran Sasso Laboratory 730km... Read more

19 November, 2011 by Stephen Shankland

Cern: Higgs boson answer to come by end of 2012

The 'Shakespeare question' about whether the Higgs boson exists or not will be settled by Large Hadron Collider experiments by the end of next year, according to Cern director general Rolf Heuer Read more

25 July, 2011 by Tom Espiner

LHC ready for new physics discoveries

...director general of the Cern laboratory in Geneva that houses the massive particle accelerator. "The experiments have shown they are ready for new physics once... Read more

27 July, 2010 by Stephen Shankland

Higgs discovery rumours denied

...told ZDNet UK on Wednesday. The rumours about experiments using the Tevatron particle accelerator were kicked off by a blog post by physicist Tommaso Dorigo... Read more

14 July, 2010

Photos: Google's logo doodles through the ages

...saw Google sharpen its pencil on behalf of the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator - which fired up in September 2008, only to break down a... Read more

3 June, 2010 by Natasha Lomas
Large Hadron Collider online 3.2

Large Hadron Collider online 3.2

...Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator. It is expected to address some of the most fundamental questions... Read more

26 April, 2012
LHC Info Browser 1.0

LHC Info Browser 1.0

...border between Switzerland and France about 100 m underground. It is a particle accelerator used by physicists to study the smallest known particles the fundamental... Read more

17 September, 2011

Photos: The world's weirdest datacentres

...have put the Large Hadron Collider to shame. Unfortunately, the Texas-based particle accelerator was cancelled in 1993 after Congress deemed its projected $12bn price... Read more

11 April, 2011 by Nick Heath
LHC Dash 1.02

LHC Dash 1.02

...LIVE status of the experiments at world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator: the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland. ------------------------- FEATURES ------------------------- Watch the status... Read more

24 September, 2010

Photos: Apple's Antennagate, Farnborough air show and Windows Phone 7

...From Racers to Colliders: the Large Hadron Collider is a mammoth, $8bn particle accelerator housed in a ring 27km in circumference about 100 meters beneath... Read more

2 August, 2010 by silicon.com staff

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