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The Large Hadron Collider, a series of tunnels constructed deep underground on the Swiss-French border, is playing host to perhaps the most dramatic piece of scientific research of our era: the search for the Higgs boson particle. Operated by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the LHC is the world's most advanced particle accelerator, and all the effort and investment into it has recently paid off, at least in part. On July 4th 2012, the CERN team announced that they have discovered a particle "consistent with" their expectation for what the Higgs boson should be, bringing us closer to the ultimate goal of better understanding the composition of all matter.
Oct 8, 2013, 10:49 AM UTCAmar Toor
Higgs boson scientists awarded Nobel Prize in physics
Drs. Peter Higgs and François Englert share award for theoretical work on the 'God particle'
Aug 3, 2012, 3:53 PM UTCJustin Rubio
The Large Hadron Collider and processing data at a million gigabytes per second
ITNews recently sat down with CERN's deputy head of IT to discuss what it takes to process data at a petabyte per second.
Jul 7, 2012, 3:43 PM UTCLouis Goddard
Large Hadron Collider's secrets revealed in dramatic photo set
A dramatic set of photographs published by The Atlantic shows the construction of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
Jul 5, 2012, 1:04 PM UTCLouis Goddard
What is the Higgs boson?
Did CERN's presentation yesterday go over your head? You're not alone. Check out these four simple and amusing explanations of the LHC and the Higgs boson
Jul 5, 2012, 12:30 AM UTCBryan Bishop
Stephen Hawking on how the Higgs boson discovery cost him $100
Stephen Hawking spoke with the BBC about CERN's discovery of a new particle that appears to be consistent with the Standard Model Higgs bosom — and how it cost him some hard-earned cash.
Jul 4, 2012, 8:56 AM UTCSam Byford
CERN scientists inexplicably present Higgs boson findings in Comic Sans
Jul 4, 2012, 7:38 AM UTCJeff Blagdon
CERN announces discovery of new particle consistent with Higgs boson
Scientists at CERN are announcing the existence of the Higgs Boson; the final missing particle in the Standard Model of particle physics.
Jul 4, 2012, 6:56 AM UTCSam Byford
Watch this: CERN now broadcasting update on Higgs boson live
CERN is holding a seminar to update the world on the progress it has made searching for the elusive Higgs boson.
Jun 8, 2012, 11:52 AM UTCAaron Souppouris
CERN confirms its mistake, neutrinos obey the speed limit of light after all
CERN has confirmed that last September's results that showed neutrinos traveling faster than the speed of light were caused by faults in its testing equipment.
May 27, 2012, 12:45 AM UTCAmar Toor
Physicist depicts Large Hadron Collider in da Vinci-style sketches
Dr. Sergio Cittolin has created sketches of CERN's Large Hadron Collider in the style of Leonardo da Vinci.
Apr 6, 2012, 4:07 AM UTCDieter Bohn
Large Hadron Collider turned on again, reaches record energy levels
For the first time in 2012, scientists have turned on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland. Two stable proton beams were collided in four different observation points in the LHC. For the experiment, the team at CERN cranked up the energy of each beam to 4 teraelectronvolts.
Mar 31, 2012, 8:27 PM UTCAdi Robertson
Find the Higgs Boson in 'Ms. Particle-Man' for iOS and browsers
'Ms. Particle-Man' is a retro-style hunt for the Higgs Boson, playable in iOS and on a browser.
Mar 23, 2012, 3:43 AM UTCDieter Bohn
Would a Higgs boson by any other name be as elementary?
As is often the case with scientific discoveries, the Higgs boson particle was actually the subject of concurrent research by multiple scientists. io9 points out that in 1964, when Peter Higgs published his famous paper, at least five other scientists were on the same track, some of whom believed they had better scientific grounds for postulating the particle's existence.
Feb 23, 2012, 12:36 PM UTCJeff Blagdon
Faster-than-light neutrinos may not be so fast after all
The OPERA team behind the famous faster-than-light neutrino experiment is reporting that its results were affected by a faulty oscillator and optical fiber.
Dec 26, 2011, 2:08 PM UTCRoss Miller
Large Hadron Collider's ATLAS experiment reconstructed in Lego
It's not quite a do-it-yourself particle accelerator for the home, but as part of an outreach project at the Niels Bohr Institute, Physics postdoc Sascha Hehlhase has assembled a stunning model of ATLAS, one of the ongoing experiments at the Large Hadron Collider, entirely out of Lego bricks.
Dec 22, 2011, 1:27 PM UTCThomas Ricker
LHC discovers first particle since opening: the Chi-b (3P) boson
LHC discovers Chi-b (3P) boson, it's first new particle discovered since opening in 2009.
Dec 12, 2011, 11:05 AM UTCThomas Ricker
Higgs boson 'glimpsed' but evidence not conclusive
Scientists at the LHC are expected to announce that the Higgs boson has been observed but a confirmation of discovery will have to wait until 2012.
