The European nuclear research agency CERN collided two high-power proton beams in the early hours of Thursday morning, marking the beginning of this year's Large Hadron Collider physics data ...

Two independent teams at the world's biggest atom smasher say they have both "observed" a new subatomic particle — a boson — that looks just like the one believed to give all matter in the universe ...

CERN will hold a scientific seminar on July 4, 2012 to deliver the latest update in the search for the Higgs boson. At this seminar, coming on the eve of this year's major particle physics conference, ...

Big announcement in the science world today from Swiss research lab CERN regarding the so-called 'God Particle.' Here's the announcement that was put out. Below it we've posted another press release ...

Scientists at CERN are announcing the existence of the Higgs Boson; the final missing particle in the Standard Model of particle physics. Scientists at CERN are announcing the existence of the Higgs ...

The big day Fabiola Gianotti (foreground, wearing red top) leads the applause in the packed CERN auditorium on 4 July 2012. (Courtesy: CERN) As I rushed to the tram stop, I noticed the queue that had ...