Today the ATLAS collaboration at CERN celebrates the lowering of its last large detector element. The ATLAS detector is the world's largest general-purpose particle detector, measuring 46 metres long, ...

Over the course of three months this summer, a gray, boxy service building at CERN gradually transformed into a three-story work of art. American artist Josef Krisotofoletti used a cherry-picker lift ...

Particle theorist Ben Allanach gives his reaction to yesterday’s seminar, where ATLAS and CMS reported on what we have (and have not yet) learned from a year of the highest-energy particle collisions ...

"Why do things have weight?"Higgs particle"We can understand this mystery if we can find a strange particle called "Higgs particle called God's elementary particle and the discovery of SUSY (Susie) ...

This podcast features an interview with Sara Alderweireldt, who is a physicist working on the ATLAS experiment at CERN – the world-famous physics lab that straddles the Swiss-French border and is home ...

As an A-level science student, it’s never too early to adventure out into the real world, to see what it’s like working in a laboratory. For Annabelle Gill, the institute in question just happened to ...