300 years after alchemy failed, CERN scientists finally turn lead into goldCenturies after alchemists sought transmutation, CERN scientists have turned lead into gold using the Large Hadron Collider. By colliding l...
12 May, 2025, 05.21 PM IST
Scientists plan even bigger Hadron Collider, a 56.5-mile universe-unraveling machine that could redefine Physics foreverCERN has revealed plans for a £13 billion Future Circular Collider that is set to be four times as powerful as the current Large Hadron Col...
02 Apr, 2025, 11.02 PM IST
Scientists at CERN observe three "exotic" particles for first timeThe 27 kilometre-long (16.8 mile) LHC at CERN is the machine that found the Higgs boson particle, which along with its linked energy field ...
05 Jul, 2022, 07.54 PM IST
India to play larger role as CERN looks for more Higgs-like particles: PhysicistArchana Sharma, a senior scientist at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, who was involved in the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, said that CE...
28 Nov, 2018, 03.06 PM IST
'Madala boson' may help unlock dark matter mystery: ScientistsThe experiment was repeated last year and this year, after a two-and-a-half year shut-down of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, said...
07 Sep, 2016, 01.28 PM IST
Two most dangerous numbers could signal the end of physicsAs particles swim through the Higgs field, they gain mass to eventually become the protons, neutrons, and electrons comprising all of the a...
18 Jan, 2016, 11.43 AM IST
How particle physics inspired Gilles Jobin to choreograph 'Quantum'Jobin was moved by the breadth and beauty of particle physics, and also witnessed the discovery and announcement of the Higgs boson.
12 Dec, 2015, 06.03 AM IST
Scientists produce Big Bang's `littlest liquid'Scientists at CERN have produced tiny droplets of a state of matter thought to have existed right at the birth of the universe.
07 Sep, 2015, 10.14 AM IST
LHC produces state of matter existing at birth of universeScientists at CERN have produced tiny droplets of a state of matter thought to have existed right at the birth of the universe.
06 Sep, 2015, 04.38 PM IST
New CERN discovery sheds more light on Higgs bosonThe ATLAS and CMS Collaborations at CERN have presented combined measurements of many of the particle's properties for the first time.
01 Sep, 2015, 05.47 PM IST
CERN discovers new class of particlesIt's as if the previous searches were looking for silhouettes in the dark, whereas LHCb conducted the search with the lights on, and from a...
14 Jul, 2015, 08.32 PM IST
CERN's Large Hadron Collider to restart by March 2015The LHC, which is managed by the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), is on a 2-year break from smashing particles to undergo...
15 Dec, 2014, 02.31 PM IST
IIT Madras made full member of CMS experiment at CERNIt will get several opportunities in a large number of related technologies initiated and applied at the Switzerland-based organisation.
26 Nov, 2014, 02.08 AM IST
Stop step-motherly treatment of pharma sector in India: CiplaCipla Chairman Yusuf Hamied expressed hope that the new government would also take strong action over the issue of monopolies in the health...
08 Jul, 2014, 12.52 PM IST
- Apeing Shakespeare ain't a 'monkey' business
Millions of (computer-generated) monkeys pounding away on millions of (virtual) typewriters are about to complete reproducing Shakespeare's...
01 Oct, 2011, 05.28 AM IST
- Key to fact may well lie in archives of fiction
Scientists at CERN have cautiously announced to the world what Trekkies have known for a long time: that objects can travel faster than the...
27 Sep, 2011, 06.50 AM IST
The God particleTop physicists have reportedly spent the last few days "experimentally drunk" on all things sub-atomic at a high energy physics conference ...
03 Aug, 2011, 07.19 AM IST