Scientists at the European Centre for Nuclear Research (Cern), which operates the £5bn atom-smasher on the Franco-Swiss border, are expected to restart high-energy operations on Tuesday morning. Their aim is to steer speeding atomic particles into head-on collisions in a bid to mimic the conditions seen moments after the Big Bang.

Controlling the way liquids spread across a surface is important for a wide variety of technologies, including DNA microarrays for medical research, inkjet printers and digital lab-on-a-chip systems. But until now, the designers of such devices could only control how much the liquid ...

Early this morning, two proton beams collided in the Large Hadron Collider’s 17-mile-long ring at a combined energy of 7 TeV, three times higher than ever before.

Bats can subtly adjust the frequency of the sounds they use to do echolocation to adjust to particularly cluttered terrain.

A team of archaeologists have unearthed five chamber tombs at Ayia Sotira, a cemetery in the Nemea Valley in Greece, just a few hours walk from the ancient city of Mycenae. The tombs date from 1350 – 1200 BC, the era in which Mycenae thrived as a major centre of Greek civilization.

In the 1950s and '60s, artificial-intelligence researchers saw themselves as trying to uncover the rules of thought. But those rules turned out to be way more complicated than anyone had imagined.

A mysterious, 1,700-year-old coffin made from a 360-kilogram slab of lead — bizarrely folded over its ancient corpse like a "burrito" — has been unearthed on the outskirts of Rome.

A biomechanical analysis of running elephants has revealed that Earth's largest land animals do some strange things at high speed.

One the smallest and most agile dinosaurs yet discovered is unearthed in China.

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