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The Pentagon’s Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) offered a $40,000 (£24,350) prize to the first person to locate ten big, red balloons raised on tethers across America on Saturday, from Portland, Oregon, to Miami, Florida. The goal was to...

Europe supplanted the United States as the epicenter of fundamental physics this week when a new particle accelerator became the most powerful atom smasher in the world. As part of its commissioning, the Large Hadron Collider accelerated protons to the...

After a year's delay, the beams began circulating late on Friday in the huge tunnels under the Swiss-French border that are part of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). "It's great to see beam circulating in the LHC again," said Cern...

Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider buried deep beneath the Swiss-French border made history Monday, smashing two proton beams traveling at near-light speed into each other. The LHC, also known as the big bang machine, is the largest machine on...

The machine, which was designed to smash together beams of protons in a bid recreate conditions after the Big Bang, was launched with great fanfare last year. But, just nine days after the launch, it suffered a spectacular failure from...

Swiss officials said Friday that they had sued Google to try to require it to tighten privacy safeguards on its Street View online service. It is the latest of a series of European objections to the company's handling of personal...

French-Swiss border pushed past Fermilab's Tevatron, becoming the world's most powerful collider. "It's a mixed feeling of course for us," Fermilab spokesman Kurt Riesselmann said. "On one hand, we don't hold the world record any more. But on the other...

In an attempt to recreate conditions just after the Big Bang, beams of particles will again be sent whizzing round the giant atom smasher, deep under the Swiss and French countryside. But forget the previous scare that the $10 billion...

A giant scientific instrument that was designed to recreate the big bang but blew itself up in the process will be back in business on Friday. Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Cern , the nuclear research organisation...

Scientists hope the $7.3 billion machine will shed light on the event that many scientists believe gave birth to the universe around 14 billion years ago, but the project has suffered a series of setbacks. The latest saw a "bit...