Shedding light on 'dark matter'

Searching for one of of physics' ultimate mysteries: dark matter. Scientists visiting the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota walk through old tunnels of the Homestake gold mine. (Amina Khan / ) he scientists don hard hats, ...

Physicists believe that equal amounts of matter and antimatter were created in the Big Bang at the birth of the universe 13.8 billion years ago. Within one second, however, the antimatter had all but disappeared. That vanishing act - leaving us in a ...

Washington: Physicists have proposed a revolutionary new laser system to produce the next generation of particle accelerators, such as the (LHC) which aided the discovery of a Higgs Boson last year. The International Coherent Amplification Network ...

The World Wide Web was born at CERN, now home to the Large Hadron Collider. But just how leading-edge is its HR strategy? Natalie Cooper met head of talent acquisition James Purvis, who revealed how it is using online recruitment systems and social ...

IT is the physics centre that flings particles together at near light speed and stands at the forefront of what is technologically possible today. But now, in a throwback to its illustrious past, researchers at Cern in Switzerland are revisiting its ...

Two-decades ago WWW replaced Gopher and other more rudimentary protocols Even as the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is plotting a faster next generation internet, it is celebrating the past with a new post on the WorldWideWeb ...

Photonics laboratory: a complex games box at Strathclyde University The new UK headquarters for Europe's largest contract research organisation officially opened at the University of Strathclyde. CAP (Centre for Applied Photonics) a jointly funded ...

Prague, Czech Republic--The Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) -- a pan-European network of laser laboratories that intends to produce the most intense laser light in the world -- has been established as an international association called the ELI ...

Born in Kenya, now commuting between the Alps and London, Professor Tejinder Virdee is a particle physicist working at the CMS experiment at CERN. Born in the foothills of Mount Kenya, now commuting between the foothills of the Alps and London, ...