"Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her." – Jacob Bronowski The largest single piece of experimental scientific apparatus is currently the Large Hadron Collider bridging ...
A new measurement by CERN’s ATLAS Collaboration has strengthened evidence that the masses of fundamental particles originate through their interaction with the Higgs field. Building on earlier results ...
The ATLAS experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is going on tour. Not the real one of course, but a 150 kg wooden replica of the cathedral-sized detector. Technicians at the DESY ...
The King of Lego Geeks crown must go to physicist Sasche Mehlhase from the Niels Bohr Institute; at the very least he serves a nomination. Mehlhase has created a detailed Lego model of the ATLAS ...
Particle tracks from a proton-proton collision (also called an event) in the ATLAS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Events like this are a possible sign of the Higgs particle, though ...
Over the course of three months this summer, a gray, boxy service building at CERN gradually transformed into a three-story work of art. American artist Josef Krisotofoletti used a cherry-picker lift ...
Anyone with even a passing interest in the sciences must have wondered what it’s like to work at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, better known as CERN. Based in Switzerland, it’s one of ...