European Organization For Nuclear Research

World's biggest particle accelerator to be 32 km long

Cern scientists have upped the ante on the search of dark matter and are planning to build the world's biggest and most expensive particle accelerator - stretching up to a vast 32 kilometres.

Was Einstein wrong - or was the cable loose?

The world of science was upended last year when an experiment appeared to show one of Einstein's fundamental theories was wrong - but now ...

Particles found to break speed of light

An international team of scientists said on Thursday they had recorded sub-atomic particles traveling faster than light - a finding that could overturn one of Einstein's long-accepted fundamental laws of the universe.