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
World's largest particle smasher takes 2-year break: CERNIn particular, physicists are analysing the way it decays or transforms into other particles, to check the Standard Model's predictions.
10 Dec, 2018, 04.20 PM IST
Large Hadron Collider restarts for 2017 run: CERNOver the past month, after the completion of the maintenance work that began in December last year, each of the machines in the accelerator...
02 May, 2017, 05.22 PM IST
Large Hadron Collider data unveils new 'exotic' particlesEven though the four particles all contain the same quark composition, they each have a unique internal structure, mass and their own sets ...
06 Jul, 2016, 01.18 PM IST
World's most powerful atom smasher is heading out to the edge of physicsThis time around the LHC is kicking atoms and taking names as it hunts for answers to some of the most pressing questions in physics.
16 May, 2016, 11.13 AM IST
Universe's primordial soup recreated at CERNA few billionths of a second after the Big Bang, the universe was made up of a kind of extremely hot and dense primordial soup of the most ...
15 Feb, 2016, 03.31 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
Plan to build a machine larger than Large Hadron ColliderThe Large Hadron Collider is a 17-mile underground loop full of supercooled magnets, thirty-foot particle detectors, and miles of accelerat...
11 Jun, 2015, 04.11 PM IST
Large Hadron Collider restarts in hunt for dark matterThe restart of the LHC is now under way, with protons making their way around its 27-kilometre tunnel for the first time since 2013.
05 Apr, 2015, 04.10 PM IST
Large Hadron Collider set to resume work this monthBuilt to study the smallest known building blocks of all things, called the Higgs Boson, or the God Particle, the LHC aims at recreating th...
05 Apr, 2015, 05.59 AM IST
CERN's revamped Large Hadron Collider to restart this monthCERN expects to take till the end of May to reach collisions at the highest energy levels at 13 TEV--the highest ever for the LHC.
13 Mar, 2015, 03.41 PM IST
Cabinet Committee approves high-end Neutrino projectThe project will be funded jointly by Department of Science and Technology and Atomic Energy, while the infrastructure will be created with...
07 Jan, 2015, 02.56 AM 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
Proposed in 1960s, theoretical cousin of the Higgs Boson foundThe particle, which was first proposed in the 1960s, finally appeared at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN near Geneva, in 2012.
07 Sep, 2014, 03.59 PM IST
A Godsent ParticleScientists are acutely embarrassed by the media referring to it as the 'God particle'.
06 Jul, 2012, 04.51 AM IST