"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 ...

The ATLAS Experiment at CERN has made two years' worth of scientific data available to the public for research purposes. The data include recordings of proton–proton collisions from the Large Hadron ...

Today the ATLAS collaboration at CERN celebrates the lowering of its last large detector element. The ATLAS detector is the world's largest general-purpose particle detector, measuring 46 metres long, ...

The ATLAS collaboration at CERN today officially unveiled a giant mural depicting the ATLAS particle detector, which is currently collecting data at world's most powerful particle accelerator, the ...

Although its existence had been theorized for decades, the Higgs boson was finally observed to exist in 2012 at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Since then, it has continued to be heavily ...

The ATLAS collaboration is one of the biggest scientific projects ever, with more than 5,500 members across 40 countries. Just days after Ireland confirmed its associate membership of the European ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: CERN’s Large Hadron Collider will soon be smashing oxygen and neon atoms into other atoms of their own kind as part of its ATLAS experiment. The ...

Over at the Large Hadron Collider, protons simultaneously circle clockwise and counterclockwise, smashing into one another while moving at 99.9999991% the speed of light apiece. At two specific points ...

CERN lights up the Large Hadron Collider for Run 3, a four-year continuous run after its second long shutdown in 2018. The world’s largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, is back in ...

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 ...