The new generation of atom smashers such as the Large Hadron Collider is offering hints that new physics (and exotic new particles) await discovery. And scientists are just reaching the point where they can explore those alternatives. Full story
GENEVA (Reuters) - As two yellow-helmeted electricians rise slowly on a hoist from the cavern floor to check cabling on a huge red magnet, CERN scientist Marc Goulette makes clear he sees cosmic significance in their task. Full story
The Large Hadron Collider is working more efficiently, physicists announced Monday, with more particles than ever before crammed into the particle accelerator's beams. Full story
LONDON (Reuters) - Stephen Hawking, the British cosmologist who urged people to "be curious" in the Paralympics opening ceremony, has landed the richest prize in science for his work on quantum gravity and how black holes emit radiation. Full story
A woman concerned that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will create black holes and destroy the Earth lost a court appeal to shut the atom smasher down on Tuesday. Full story
Physicists at the world's largest atom smasher announced today (July 4) that they are more than 99 percent sure they've found a new, and heavy, boson particle, that may be the Higgs boson. Full story
The LHC tunnel is pictured during a visit at the Organization for Nuclear Research in Meyrin, near Geneva April 10, 2013. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
CERN staff speak in the LHC tunnel during a visit at the Organization for Nuclear Research in Meyrin, near Geneva April 10, 2013. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
A technician cycles in the Large Hadron Collider at the Organization for Nuclear Research in the French village of Cessy near Geneva in Switzerland April 15, 2013. As hundreds of engineers and workers start two years of work to fit out the giant LHC particle collider to reach deep into unknown re
A view of equipment in the LHC tunnel during a visit at the Organization for Nuclear Research in Meyrin, near Geneva April 10, 2013. As hundreds of engineers and workers start two years of work to fit out the giant LHC particle collider to reach deep into unknown realms of nature, CERN physicists
Simon Baird, deputy head of CERN's engineering department, poses in the LHC tunnel during a visit at the Organization for Nuclear Research in Meyrin, near Geneva April 10, 2013. As hundreds of engineers and workers start two years of work to fit out the giant LHC particle collider to reach deep int
