When Mark Thomson was 13, he read a book about the European Organization for Nuclear Research, better known as CERN, a particle physics lab whose remit was to interrogate the fabric of reality. The ...

Ten years ago, the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, found the Higgs boson particle, helping to explain the big bang theory and how the universe was ...

For Alan Barr, it started during the covid-19 lockdowns. “I had a bit more time. I could sit and think,” he says. He had enjoyed being part of the success at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near ...

About 1,400 people attended the grand opening of CERN’s new science education center. Since the 1950s, physics research center CERN has been a popular tourist destination. But the start-up of the ...