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What Is Antimatter? 4 Essential Questions and Answers

(Nov. 18) -- From "Star Trek" to "Angels and Demons," antimatter has been a staple of science fiction for decades -- but not any longer. Today, scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, announced that they have successfully produced and trapped atoms of antihydrogen as part of an ongoing...

Scientists Look to Recreate Big Bang

(Nov. 5) -- Talk about a trip back in time. Scientists have always wondered what it was like at the moment of and immediately after the creation of the universe, generally known as the Big Bang. Soon, they may find out. By using the world's biggest and most powerful particle accelerator -- the Large Hadron Collider, or...

Large Hadron Collider Gets 'Intimate' With New Physics Experiments

(Sept. 22) -- Big news from the so-called "Big Bang machine" today: Proton beam collisions produced separate particles that flew away from one another but remained "intimately linked," according to scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), who observed the effect in the Large Hadron Collider...

Atom Smasher Smashes Energy Record

(March 19) -- From broken down to record breaking, the Large Hadron Collider -- the world's largest, most expensive particle accelerator -- just achieved yet another milestone on the quest to discover the secrets of the physical universe. Today, scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN,...

Background on cern

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (), known as CERN (; ; see History), is an international organization whose purpose is to operate the world's largest particle physics laboratory, which is situated in the northwest suburbs of Geneva on the Franco–Swiss border ().

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