It sounds scary, and it is. Building the LHC in a tunnel was a prudent move. The particle beam could drill a hole in just about anything, although the most likely victim would be the apparatus itself.

The LHC is a 27km (17 mile) ring-shaped tunnel. Tiny particles accelerate around it until they smash into each other. These collisions produce bursts of new particles, which exist for only ...

The start of the construction work was marked with a ceremony The LHC uses thousands of magnets to steer two beams of proton particles around a 27km-long circular tunnel located 100m underground.

In 2008, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will come into operation at CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland. The highest-energy accelerator ever built, it heralds a new era in particle-physics research ...

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC ... involves accelerating proton beams to energies of 7 TeV in an underground tunnel with a circumference of 27 km and then analysing the debris produced ...

The LHC is a particle accelerator, which has been built deep underground in a 27 km tunnel under Switzerland and France. Once activated the Collider will fire beams of protons together recreating ...

The world's most massive science experiment has done it again, detecting hints of the heaviest antimatter particle ever found. This means the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the most powerful ...

The proposal involves digging a new tunnel under Cern and then installing ... nearly ten times harder than they have been by the LHC. Physicists hope that such collisions at these unprecedented ...

The LHC will generate huge amounts of data, with nearly 150 million sensors picking up information from millions of particle collisions every second at the centre of each of the four main detectors.