Science

BBC News: Meet the world's director of time. As 2008 turns to 2009 at the end of this month, an extra second will be added to every clock. But who decides exactly what time it is? Professor Brian Cox meets the man in charge of all our timekeeping

BBC News: Hadron Collider halted for months. The Large Hadron Collider near Geneva will be out of action for at least two months, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) says.  Part of the giant physics experiment was turned off for the weekend while engineers probed a magnet failure.  But

BBC News: 'Big Bang' experiment starts well Scientists have hailed a successful switch-on for an enormous experiment which will recreate the conditions a few moments after the Big Bang.  They have fired a beam of particles called protons around the 27km-long tunnel which houses the the Large Hadron

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) goes live at Cern this week! A hundred metres below France and Switzerland it will be smashing particles together at high energy levels using a 27km ring of superconducting magnets kept at -271C.  Particle energies will be up to 7TeV, for a head-on collision of

BBC News: Solar dyes give a guiding light A new way capturing the energy from the Sun could increase the power generated by solar panels tenfold, a team of American scientists has shown.  The new technique involves coating glass with a specific mixture of transparent dyes which redirect light to