Largest particle collider conducts successful test
Associated Press - Tue Sep 9, 2008
GENEVA - The world's largest particle collider successfully completed its first major test by firing a beam of protons around a 17-mile underground ring Wednesday in what scientists hope is the next great step to understanding the makeup of the universe. More»
CERN fires up new atom smasher to near Big Bang
Associated Press - Sun Sep 7, 2008
GENEVA - It has been called an Alice in Wonderland investigation into the makeup of the universe - or dangerous tampering with nature that could spell doomsday. More»
Scientists: Nothing to fear from atom-smasher
Associated Press - Sat Jun 28, 2008
MEYRIN, Switzerland - The most powerful atom-smasher ever built could make some bizarre discoveries, such as invisible matter or extra dimensions in space, after it is switched on in August. More»
Greatest experiment ever in particle physics nears countdown
AFP - Sun Mar 23, 2008
GENEVA - In a vast circular underground tunnel below the French-Swiss border, the final pieces of a gigantic machine are being set in place for an extraordinary investigation into the infinitely small at CERN: Europe's atom-smashing laboratory. More»
Are we missing a dimension of time?
Telegraph UK - Tue Oct 9, 2007
A scientist has put forward the bizarre suggestion that there are two dimensions of time, not the one that we are all familiar with, and even proposed a way to test his heretical idea next year. More»
Parallel universe proof boosts time travel hopes
Telegraph UK - Thu Sep 20, 2007
Parallel universes really do exist, according to a mathematical discovery by Oxford scientists that sweeps away one of the key objections to the mind boggling and controversial idea. More»
Fuel's paradise? Power source that turns physics on its head
The Guardian UK - Sat Nov 5, 2005
It seems too good to be true: a new source of near-limitless power that costs virtually nothing, uses tiny amounts of water as its fuel and produces next to no waste. More»
Teleportation: Express Lane Space Travel
Space.com - Fri Jul 8, 2005
Think Star Trek: You are here, you want to go there, it's just a matter of teleportation. More»
Can This Black Box See Into the Future?
Red Nova News - Sun Feb 13, 2005
DEEP in the basement of a dusty university library in Edinburgh lies a small black box, roughly the size of two cigarette packets side by side, that churns out random numbers in an endless stream. More»