Proceeds of sale by Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the internet, to go to charity

‘Without continuous developments and insights from basic research, applied research may eventually wither away’

The possibilities are thrilling but Ireland is not a Cern member so our researchers cannot work there

Membership of organisation is critical to becoming ‘a global innovation leader’

European Space Agency considering the Myriad 2 chip for in-orbit image processing

Ireland should not balk at yearly €10m fee to join Geneva physics laboratory - FG Senator

Atom smasher restarts after re-fit with aim of finding what binds galaxies together

After a two-year upgrade, the Large Hadron Collider is 60% more powerful. So what are scientists hoping for?

Secondary school science students Jana Decker and James Flaus visited Cern

At Cern in Switzerland, home to the Large Hadron Collider, the excitement is palpable – a sense of anticipation that something big is about to happen