What is the Large Hadron Collider? It is the world's most powerful particle accelerator. It is buried inside a 17-mile tunnel and surrounded by massive detectors. ...more

September 11, 2008

GENEVA (AP) - The world's largest particle collider successfully completed its first major test by firing a beam of protons around a 17-mile underground ring Wednesday in what scientists hope is the next great step to understanding the makeup of the universe. ...more

September 10, 2008

Scientists will launch an experiment in a tunnel deep beneath the French-Swiss border today, hoping to find evidence of extra dimensions, invisible "dark matter" and a particle called the "Higgs boson." ...more

September 10, 2008

It has been called an Alice in Wonderland investigation into the makeup of the universe - or dangerous tampering with nature that could spell doomsday. ...more

September 8, 2008

President Bush and European Union leaders threatened Iran on Tuesday with new financial sanctions unless the country curbs its nuclear ambitions and opens facilities to international inspection. ...more

June 11, 2008