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Scientists with the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory say their machine has a 50% chance of discovering the particle which is believed to give mass to the universe.

The Higgs boson, aka the god particle, which physicists hope to detect with the new LHC, is the holy grail of modern particle physics. What are bosons and fermions?

Scientists hope to solve the mystery of matter by mimicking conditions that existed just a fraction of a second after the Big Bang.

Straddling the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, 50 meters underground and an astonishing 17 miles long; the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is easily the World's biggest gun.

Damage to CERN's Large Hadron Collider from the mishap shortly after it opened in September, 2008 required extensive repairs. The LHC will restart in late 2009.

Shortly after the CERN Large Hadron Collider accelerated its first protons, an accidental liquid He leak caused some magnets to warm up and necessitated repairs.

Bosons, along with fermions and leptons complete the 'zoo' of elementary particles.

Particle Accelerators form an enormous part of physical discovery, and as such, they are constantly getting bigger, better, and (much) more expensive.

On September 10th, 2008 the Large Hadron Collider, a colossal scientific experiment both financially and ambitiously, successfully began in a tunnel beneath Switzerland.

The four known natural forces are, from strongest to weakest: strong nuclear, electromagnetic, weak nuclear, and gravity. Without forces structure could not exist.

Fermilab's Tevatron is trying to make more scientific news before Europe's huge Large Hadron Collider completes repairs and begins operations again in the Spring of 2009.

There has never been a wider range of science toys on the market. This article highlights just a few of the many fun and educational gifts available.

Elementary analysis of quantum entanglement suggests that all matter in the universe is still cosmically connected after 14 billion years, across 156 billion light years.