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  • News and comment on the world's most ambitious scientific experiment: the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Laboratory for particle physics near Geneva

Large Hadron Collider

Professor Stephen Hawking

The Big Bang Machine

Stephen Hawking introduces The Guardian's LHC supplement and looks forward to a golden age of discovery after the collider is switched on
LHC: Simulation of a detection of the Higgs boson

Cosmic building blocks

What is the universe made of and how did it all begin? Astronomer Royal Martin Rees heralds some of the insights that the LHC will provide
Collision events in bubble chambers at Cern

The particle menagerie

Up, down, top, bottom, charm, strange ... How do physicists dream up such whimsical names for fundamental particles? Simon Singh explains
  • CMS experiment at CERN

    In pictures

    Inside physics' most audacious – and expensive – experiment
  • Giza pyramids, Egypt

    Mystery and imagination

    The enormous constructions at Cern evoke great cathedrals and Egyptian pyramids, writes Jonathan Glancey
    • LHC: ALICE detector magnets

    The edge of understanding

    Peter Higgs