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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Scientists may have finally tracked down the elusive “God particle” that gives matter mass and holds the physical fabric of the universe together.

Scientists believe they have captured the elusive “God particle” that gives matter mass and holds the physical 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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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

The world’s largest atom smasher today set a record for high-energy collisions by crashing two proton beams at three times more force than ever before.

The world's largest atom smasher was poised to start a new era of science today, colliding beams of protons to learn more about the make-up of the universe and its smallest particles.

A German court today threw out an application to halt experiments at the Large Hadron Collider for fear they will destroy the Earth.

The “Big Bang” machine with which scientists hope to re-create conditions at the dawn of the universe smashed the world record for accelerating subatomic particles today.

THE world’s biggest atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), began firing beams of protons in opposite directions yesterday, with scientists describing initial progress as an “enormous success”.

Scientists switched on the world’s largest atom smasher for the first time since the $10bn (€6.7bn) machine suffered a spectacular failure more than a year ago.

THE world’s largest atom smasher could be ready to start again by the weekend, according to scientists at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research.

The world’s largest atom smasher could be ready to start again by the weekend, according to scientists at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research.

FRENCH magistrates charged a nuclear scientist suspected of al-Qaida links with “membership of a terrorist group” yesterday, judicial officials said.

A SCIENTIST working at the giant European CERN atom smasher laboratory has been held on suspicion of being linked to al-Qaida, it emerged yesterday.

A scientist working at the giant European CERN atom smasher laboratory has been held on suspicion of being linked to al-Qaida, it emerged today.

The planned restart of the world’s largest atom smasher has been delayed, its operator said today.

The repair bill for Europe’s giant atom smasher which broke down shortly after being switched on for the first time will be around €16.5m, scientists said today

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva will be out of action until the Spring while engineers investigate a fault, it was announced.

Scientists will have to wait until next spring to use the world’s largest particle collider because of repairs and a winter shutdown, CERN decided today.

THE world’s largest atom smasher — which was launched with great fanfare earlier this month — has been damaged worse than previously thought and will be out of commission for at least two months, its operators said on Saturday.

The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) says its new particle collider has been damaged more than previously thought and will be out of commission for at least two months.

IT HAS been called an Alice-in-Wonderland investigation into the makeup of the universe — or dangerous tampering with nature that could spell doomsday.

TWO or three years ago anyone who dared suggest we had too many of our eggs in one basket or even hinted that the good times could not last was all but ostracised as a traitor.