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

It is the biggest machine ever built. Everyone says it looks like a movie set for a corny James Bond villain. They are correct. The machine is attended by brainiacs wearing hard hats and running around on catwalks. They are looking for the answer to the question: Where does everything in the universe come from? ...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