There are growing calls for Ireland to join the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) in order to capitalise on €300m worth of commercial projects as well as encouraging more Irish students to enter the scientific field.

Week three of Leaving Certificate 2016 blasted off with references to a spacecraft visiting Pluto and the Large Hadron Collider project in Switzerland.

Last week the New York Stock Exchange, the largest and arguably most influential stock exchange in the world, was closed for a few hours. 

A couple who saved a trio of UCC students from being jailed in Thailand has been found; Enda Kenny has said that the delay caused by last week's referendum has cost Greece dearly; Scientists working at CERN say they have discovered a new kind of particle; and watch what happens when two men walk aound Moscow holding hands. Just some of the latest and most read stories on irishexaminer.com

Scientists herald a new frontier in physics

Scientists operating the world’s biggest particle collider say they have set a new energy record ahead of the massive machine’s full restart in June.

Scientists have successfully restarted the Large Hadron Collider, the most powerful atom-smasher ever built, hoping to enter a new realm of physics.

It was a classic case of right time, wrong place, when the Membranes emerged growling and screaming from the English town of Blackpool in 1977. While the media fixated on the punk and post-punk explosions in London and nearby Manchester, the seaside Lancashire town was treated with neglect.

The 25th anniversary of the world wide web will be celebrated around the globe this week. The milestone will be marked on Wednesday, a quarter of a century since it was first proposed in 1989 by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee.

The poor state of EU-Irish relations burst into the open with Commission president José Manuel Barroso’s ‘moment of truth’ in the midst of the EU summit.

British physicist Peter Higgs and Francois Englert, of Belgium, have won the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics for their theoretical discoveries on how subatomic particles acquire mass.

Scientists have embarked on one of the strangest experiments ever — to see whether atoms of exotic antimatter fall up instead of down.

Physicists say they are now confident they have discovered a long-sought subatomic particle known as a Higgs boson.

Some call it Europe’s Got Talent for geeks. Teams of scientists from across the continent are vying for a funding bonanza that could see two of them receive up to €1 billion over 10 years to keep Europe at the cutting edge of technology.

Dec 21 2012 is the most eagerly-awaited date since 2000. But we’ve a history of getting it wrong, says Oliver Moore

The recent Higgs boson revelation ranks as one of our greatest discoveries. Mark Evans looks at some of the others that can rival it

We should make this rock we live on a better place for all as well as looking at the stars, Bob Geldof told the world’s leading scientists yesterday.

Niamh Shaw combines her interest in science and the arts in her play, That’s About The Size Of It, says John Tynan

Ireland has much to offer to the world of science as well as the arts, President Michael D Higgins declared at the opening of the 2012 Euroscience Open Forum in Dublin last night.

With world attention focused on CERN and the detection of the Higgs boson, the contribution of Ireland’s Nobel physicist Ernest Walton, who was born in Waterford, should be noted.

In one of the great scenes in one of the great television series Homer Simpson is philosophising from his couch as he uses his TV’s remote control to flick aimlessly from channel to channel.

It’s the silly season, and politicians are considering where to spend the break.

Scientists have hailed the “momentous” discovery of what appears to be the ‘God particle’ that gives matter mass and holds the fabric of the universe together.

The hunt for the fabled “God particle” that lends mass to matter and holds the universe together could soon be over.

The hunt for the fabled “God particle” that lends mass to matter and holds the universe together could soon be over.

The Institute of Physics is proposing that the new Liffey bridge should be named for Ireland’s only science Nobel Laureate, Ernest Walton (1903-1995).

European researchers say they have measured the speed of neutrinos and found the subatomic particles do not travel faster than light.

ON July 20, 1969, thousands of people across Ireland sat watching grainy black and white images of men taking their first steps on the moon.

IT has been called “the brick that built the universe” and “the God particle.”

Confirmation that scientists have found the Higgs boson, the greatest trophy in particle physics, could come "very soon" in the New Year, it was claimed today.

Scientists are expected to reveal “significant progress” in the search for the so-called “God particle” today, but will not be able to say whether it exists or not, they said.

IT is one of the most elusive particles in physics — and speculation is mounting that scientists will next week announce it has been found.

PHYSICISTS on the team that measured particles travelling faster than light said yesterday they were as surprised as their sceptics about the results — which appear to violate the laws of nature as we know them.

AS Star Trek’s Mr Spock once remarked to Captain Kirk: “It’s life, but not as we know it.”

Scientists say they will either prove or dismiss the existence of a long-sought theoretical particle by the end of next year.

CERN scientists have staged their first speed-of-light particle collisions of the year, resuming their probes into the origins of the cosmos in the centre’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

GOD’S mind was behind complex scientific theories such as the Big Bang, and Christians should reject the idea that the universe came into being by accident, Pope Benedict has said.

ANTIMATTER has been captured for the first time in a scientific breakthrough echoing the hit movie Angels & Demons.

SCIENTISTS smashed sub-atomic particles into each other with record energy yesterday, aiming to recreate conditions just after the Big Bang that gave rise to the universe 13.7 billion years ago.

The world’s largest atom smasher today conducted its first experiments at conditions nearing those immediately after the creation of the universe.