Elementary particles gain their mass from a fundamental field associated with the Higgs boson
The 27-kilometre LHC is the world's largest particle accelerator. It collides protons or lead ions at energies approaching the speed of light
The Big Bang should have created equal amounts of matter and antimatter. So why is there far more matter than antimatter in the universe?
The World Wide Web, invented at CERN in 1989 by British scientist Tim Berners-Lee, has grown to revolutionise communications worldwide
A project to increase the luminosity of the Large Hadron Collider by a factor of 10 beyond its design value by 2020