When hearing particle accelerator, people usually think about basic research and not much else. Yet these facilities serve also very practical purposes. Sometimes, they even kill off cancer cells

Big data sounds like a contemporary phenomenon. Yet at CERN, scientists have been battling with huge amounts of data already for 20 years. In the context of our series on big data we have spoken with a particle physicist

Between May 2010 and May 2012, scientists managed to capture 28 high-energy neutrinos in the Antarctic using a large detector named IceCube

“Super-heavy elements” exist for mere milliseconds before they decay. Researchers at the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung are going to incredible lengths to create them. How are these elements produced and why are scientists looking for them?

No amount of force will do to unstick the ultimate super glue. Quarks, the building blocks of protons, occur in pairs or in groups of three and are inseparably connected to their partnering quark(s)

Today, researchers can compute the three-dimensional structure of, for example, biomolecules causing diseases, thus assisting the search for an appropriate active agent

In July 2012, scientists at CERN verified the Higgs boson; the theoretical prediction of its existence has earned Peter Higgs and François Englert this year's Nobel Prize in Physics. A rare glimpse behind the scenes of the worldwide leading particle physics research centre.

A handful of atoms, synthetically generated, which exist for milliseconds and then disintegrate again immediately – research scientists who want to seek out new elements have to put in a great deal of effort for this fleeting moment. How do synthetic elements originate and why are they being sought out?

Maximal drei Quarks pro Teilchen, so lautete bislang die Gleichung der Physiker. Jetzt haben Wissenschaftler beim japanischen Beschleuniger-Experiment BELLE ein geladenes Teilchen entdeckt, das aus vier Quarks besteht .