https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Switzerland in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed The world's biggest particle smasher, based in Geneva, was set on Wednesday to start unprecedented experiments after a two-year upgrade to crank up energy levels in a bid to unlock more mysteries of the universe. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150603/cerns-particle-smasher-set-for-new-experiments Wed, 03 Jun 2015 13:52:47 +0200 cerns-particle-smasher-set-for-new-experiments The world's largest particle smasher broke the record for energy levels in a test run after a two-year upgrade, the Geneva-based European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) announced on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150521/geneva-particle-smasher-sets-energy-level-record Thu, 21 May 2015 16:47:23 +0200 geneva-particle-smasher-sets-energy-level-record The world's largest particle smasher resumed colliding protons Tuesday as it gradually reboots following a two-year upgrade, the Geneva-based European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) said. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150505/cern-fires-up-particle-accelerator-after-upgrade Tue, 05 May 2015 22:37:39 +0200 cern-fires-up-particle-accelerator-after-upgrade Physicists in Geneva have fixed a short-circuit at the world's largest proton smasher, making the particle-hunting machine ready for a restart "within days' time" after a two-year shutdown. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150401/cern-poised-to-restart-particle-accelerator Wed, 01 Apr 2015 15:46:02 +0200 cern-poised-to-restart-particle-accelerator A short-circuit at the world's largest proton smasher has indefinitely delayed the particle-hunting machine's planned restart, the Geneva-based European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) said on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150325/magnet-short-circuit-halts-cerns-particle-smasher Wed, 25 Mar 2015 19:03:43 +0100 magnet-short-circuit-halts-cerns-particle-smasher Physicists at the world's largest particle collider have made the most accurate measurement yet of the Higgs boson, which was found after a nearly half-century quest, Geneva-based physics lab CERN said on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150317/cern-scientists-measure-god-particle Tue, 17 Mar 2015 19:20:57 +0100 cern-scientists-measure-god-particle Europe's Geneva-based physics lab CERN has begun tests in preparation for rebooting the world's biggest particle collider and trying to uncover new particles that could alter our understanding of the Universe. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150312/cern-ready-to-reboot-particle-collider Thu, 12 Mar 2015 19:04:26 +0100 cern-ready-to-reboot-particle-collider Italian physicist Fabiola Gianotti was named on Tuesday to lead the Geneva-based European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN), the first woman to head up the globally renowned particle physics lab. https://www.thelocal.ch/20141104/italian-woman-named-to-head-cern-physics-centre Tue, 04 Nov 2014 23:48:00 +0100 italian-woman-named-to-head-cern-physics-centre Europe's Geneva-based physics lab CERN said on Thursday that it was eyeing plans for a circular particle collider that would be seven times more powerful than the facility which discovered the famous "God particle." https://www.thelocal.ch/20140206/cern-eyes-more-powerful-particle-collider Thu, 06 Feb 2014 21:01:00 +0100 cern-eyes-more-powerful-particle-collider Scientists at the Geneva-based lab that discovered the "God particle" popped champagne Tuesday, ecstatic over the Nobel Physics Prize award for its theoreticians Peter Higgs and François Englert. https://www.thelocal.ch/20131008/geneva-lab-celebrates-physicists-nobel-prize Tue, 08 Oct 2013 18:02:00 +0200 geneva-lab-celebrates-physicists-nobel-prize Seven months after its scientists made a landmark discovery that may explain the mysteries of mass, Europe's top particle physics lab, based in Geneva, is taking a break. https://www.thelocal.ch/20130213/geneva-physics-lab-shuts-down-accelerator Wed, 13 Feb 2013 20:52:00 +0100 geneva-physics-lab-shuts-down-accelerator