The European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) houses the largest magnet in the world. During its course of operation, many of the world's foremost particle physicists have worked or conducted research at the CERN facility. Medical imaging and the...

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (French: Organisation européenne pour la recherche nucléaire), commonly known as CERN (see Naming), pronounced [sɝn] (or [sɛʀn] in French), is the world's largest particle physics laboratory, situated...

Europe's biggest particle-physics laboratory is half a century old this year. What does the future hold? BEFORE the days when marketing departments dictated that acronyms should be engineered to sound like real words, a group of Europeans got together in Paris to...

Scientists and European leaders gathered in Geneva, Switzerland, on October 19 to celebrate 50 years of groundbreaking science. French President Jacques Chirac, King Juan Carlos of Spain, and Swiss President Joseph Diess were among those who attended ceremonies marking the founding of the European...

The world's biggest particle collider will start up next May, six months behind schedule because of problems, including the failure of a key U.S. designed part, the European Organization for Nuclear Research said Friday.The Large Hadron Collider, eagerly awaited by scientists hoping it will reveal...

The world's most ambitious particle collider _ which scientists hope could reveal what matter is made of _ might not be fully functional until next year, months after its scheduled startup date, officials at the European Organization for Nuclear Research said Thursday.Scientists have been scrambling...