‘It is imperative that young people in Africa are motivated to learn physics and be part of big science projects’

Science continues to shift the boundaries of what we think we know and 2016 will be no exception. Sarah Wild highlights the fields to keep an eye on.

Admittance to the particle accelerator reveals our ability to back international science experiments.

A year since the discovery of a subatomic particle set the science world aflutter, evidence is mounting it may be the elusive Higgs boson.

The world’s biggest atom smasher has set a new world record for luminosity, a key measure of performance and power, Cern said on Friday.

Scientists at the world’s biggest atom smasher near Geneva on Tuesday started colliding particles at record energy levels.

December 31 1999, and I couldn’t have been further away from a computer … about half-way up the Mozambican coast.

Repairing the giant particle collider built to simulate the ”Big Bang” could cost up to -million.

The world’s largest atom smasher — which was launched earlier this month — has been damaged twice and will be out of commission for two months.

Scientists at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) started up a huge particle-smashing machine on Wednesday.

Stephen Hawking has bet that a mega-experiment this week will not find an elusive particle seen as a holy grail of cosmic science.