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LHC: Black holes and bunkum

Nature sabotaging the LHC? Black holes devouring the planet? The CERN project has provoked some fearful reactions

LHC: a force to be reckoned with

Protons travelling at almost the speed of light are a dangerous proposition. Stopping them safely is no easy job

Back to the beginning: a history of CERN

Notes from a Large Hadron Collider

The bestselling author visits CERN and meets the scientists who are hoping to unlock the secrets of the Universe

Eureka: Life, the Universe and everything

In issue two of Eureka, Bill Bryson tries to get his head around the LHC and we delve into robot surgery and longevity

CERN: what went wrong the first time?

The LHC shut down last year when one of 50,000 soldered joints failed. A CERN expert explains why it probably won't again

The ultimate question about the big bang

A science experiment is under way again that may teach us how the Universe began or blow up the planet!

India claims to be birthplace of science

A new exhibition in Delhi suggests that many important discoveries were made in the subcontinent long before Greece

Hadron Collider restarted after year of repairs

Cern scientists say particle accelerator has been rebooted successfully for first time since last year's high-profile flop

The men exploring aviation's final frontier

Two Swiss pilots are attempting to change the future of flying in a plane powered by the Sun. We talk to the pioneers

Breakthrough in theoretical physics

A magnetic version of electricity has been generated for the first time and magnetic ‘charges’ have at last been observed

Sexy science: unleashing the power of code

Why it’s time maths got a little Nobel prize recognition

Graduate of Woolwich Polytechnic wins Nobel Prize

Charles Kuen Kao, a Chinese-born Briton, awarded prize for being first to develop efficient fibre optic cables

Storing CO2 could be Britain’s next boom industry

The UK has one of Europe’s largest undersea capacities for keeping greenhouse gases, which could become a huge new growth sector