Forty years ago quarks gained their freedom – at least theoretically – and the modern theory of the strong interaction began to emerge

The recently installed AEgIS experiment will examine the effect of gravity on antimatter

On 25 January 1983, CERN physicists announced to the world the discovery of the W boson, an elementary particle that carries the weak force

At CERN today, the experiments at the Antiproton Decelerator presented updates on their work in 2012, and their hopes for 2013

This episode of the Colliding Particles series looks back at the July Higgs search update

Proposals to build colliders that churn out the new Higgs-like particle are gathering momentum. But what would these colliders look like?

The European Southern Observatory, founded on 5 October 1962, has close links with CERN

The particle was the star of Enlightenment - a science-themed ceremony featuring Stephen Hawking and Ian McKellen

Heavy-ion experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will present their latest results at the Quark Matter 2012 conference

Today marks 100 years since Victor Hess made last of series of balloon flights leading to the discovery of cosmic rays