FROM the RDS to CERN, from playing ‘a musical typewriter’ to playing with the most powerful machine ever built.

The Nobel Prize-winning scientist, Professor Peter Higgs, has said he plans to retire next year at the age of 85.

Professor Peter Higgs, the scientist who gave his name to the Higgs boson particle, says he is “overwhelmed” to have won the Nobel Prize in Physics.

One of the top three students in this year’s Leaving Certificate is hoping for a career at Nasa, the Cern physics research centre or, failing that, in a band.

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

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.

Scientists working at the world’s biggest atom smasher plan to announce tomorrow that they have gathered enough evidence to show that the long-sought ‘God particle’ answering fundamental questions about the universe almost certainly does exist.

SCIENTISTS are becoming more confident that they will be able to contradict Einstein’s assertion that nothing can travel faster than light, after carrying out another test.

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

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

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.

AWARD-winning science outreach centre CALMAST has arranged an action-packed south-east science festival, with events planned throughout Waterford and Wexford.