The long journey to the Higgs boson and beyond: the power of collaboration
‘It is imperative that young people in Africa are motivated to learn physics and be part of big science projects’
Large Hadron Collider
What to expect from the world of science in 2016
Science continues to shift the boundaries of what we think we know and 2016 will be no exception. Sarah Wild highlights the fields to keep an eye on.
SA crunches into the collider data grid
Admittance to the particle accelerator reveals our ability to back international science experiments.
Could this boson be the ‘God particle’?
A year since the discovery of a subatomic particle set the science world aflutter, evidence is mounting it may be the elusive Higgs boson.
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LHC sets brilliant new record
The world’s biggest atom smasher has set a new world record for luminosity, a key measure of performance and power, Cern said on Friday.
Atom smasher opens ‘new era’ for science
Scientists at the world’s biggest atom smasher near Geneva on Tuesday started colliding particles at record energy levels.
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When the world ended
December 31 1999, and I couldn’t have been further away from a computer … about half-way up the Mozambican coast.
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‘Big Bang’ collider repairs to cost up to $29m
Repairing the giant particle collider built to simulate the ”Big Bang” could cost up to -million.
What will the Large Hadron Collider do for us?
After all, lots of people know that the world wide web came out of Cern, which is home once again to a particle collider project.
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Damage to atom smasher forces two-month halt
The world’s largest atom smasher — which was launched earlier this month — has been damaged twice and will be out of commission for two months.
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Scientists send first beam round particle-smasher
Scientists at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) started up a huge particle-smashing machine on Wednesday.
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Hawking bets mega-machine won’t find ‘God’s Particle’
Stephen Hawking has bet that a mega-experiment this week will not find an elusive particle seen as a holy grail of cosmic science.
