It is “high time” Ireland joins the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern), a body representing science teachers in Ireland has said.

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.

In an underground bunker in Switzerland scientists are edging closer to finding a particle that is fundamental to our understanding of physics, writes Martin Rees

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