Deep inside CERN’s vast particle accelerator, engineers face a difficult task: inspecting narrow vacuum pipes that operate ...

A 3.7 centimetre-wide robot has been designed to travel along the 27-kilometre Large Hadron Collider to allow remote ...

Engineers from the UK Atomic Energy Authority robotics center, RACE (Remote Applications in Challenging ...

CERN engineers have transported two gleaming cryogenic “cold boxes” deep into the tunnels of ...

The UK Atomic Energy Authority developed the robot with the European nuclear research centre, Cern.

For centuries, great thinkers of the Greco-Roman, Islamic, Medieval, and even early Enlightenment worlds investigated the possibilities of alchemy—the process of transforming base metals (i.e. lead) ...

Since inaugural operations began in 2008, the LHC has allowed researchers to probe some of the universe’s most profound and mysterious forces. But investigating the deepest questions of modern physics ...

Alchemists eat your heart out. Researchers at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider achieved the once-impossible dream of alchemists by turning lead into gold — but only for a split second. The world’s largest ...

The Large Hadron Collider is going to be shut down — not permanently, but for a pretty long time — and the famous atom smasher’s eventual final retirement is also something that top scientists are now ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) remains one of the pinnacles of ...