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Instant Expert: The Large Hadron Collider
The LHC is the world's biggest ever physics experiment, and by studying conditions close to those just after the big bang, it could solve some of science's deepest mysteries
LATEST ARTICLES
LHC smashes protons together for first time
22:39 23 November 2009 | 90 comments
The particle accelerator is now officially a collider – it will attempt to break the world record for collision energies before the end of the year
Future colliders: Beyond the LHC
11:49 20 November 2009 | 51 comments
Physicists are already plotting how the discoveries of the Large Hadron Collider will shape the next generation of particle smashers
In SUSY we trust: What the LHC is really looking for
18:00 11 November 2009 | 166 comments
Forget the God particle - the rebooted Large Hadron Collider will give us much greater revelations
Black holes are the ultimate particle smashers
18:00 09 September 2009 | 54 comments
Particles approaching a black hole event horizon collide at energies way beyond those of accelerators on Earth, and could reveal new physics
Tevatron tightens up the race for the Higgs
09:00 31 August 2009 | 59 comments
With the Large Hadron Collider yet to restart, the less powerful – but working – Tevatron is piling up data and could find the Higgs boson first
Large Hadron Collider to restart at half its designed energy
00:24 07 August 2009 | 58 comments
The world's most powerful particle smasher will restart in November at just half the energy it was designed to reach – but it could still uncover exotic new physics, physicists say
Cool short cut could speed LHC restart
10:12 25 June 2009 | 30 comments
A single badly soldered join undid CERN's giant atom smasher – now engineers hope they have found a quick way to check all 10,000
Tom Hanks and Ron Howard: Space geeks
09:00 20 June 2009 | 36 comments
The Hollywood actor and director talk moon missions and atom smashing
Inside the tangled world of string theory
12:00 15 April 2009 | 53 comments
Edward Witten, leading architect of string theory, tells New Scientist how it feels to work in an area so rarefied that it's a problem conveying to other people what he does
The woman in charge of the world's biggest experiment
14:45 04 March 2009 | 12 comments
How does it feel when your work could unlock the mysteries of the universe? We ask Fabiola Gianotti, who is taking over as head of the ATLAS collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator
INTERVIEW
The man behind the 'God particle'
Peter Higgs is almost as elusive as the particle named after him, but as the latest, $9-billion search for the Higgs boson gets underway, New Scientist asks this unassuming physicist how he will feel when he is finally proved right - or wrong
