Increasingly concerned about fakery, wine-makers are calling on particle accelerators and radiation detectors to verify vintages.

Inside Isis: How neutron scattering works

Cosmetics containing tiny "nano" particles are being used widely despite unresolved issues surrounding their safety, a consumer watchdog warns.

Experimental evidence confirms that a plan to protect spaceships from radiation using magnetic fields would work.

A Nasa spacecraft has been launched into orbit to study the edge of our Solar System.

The Nobel Prize for physics this year lauds three individuals who described tiny flaws in the fabric of the Universe.

The solar wind - the stream of charged particles billowing away from the Sun - is at its weakest for 50 years.

BBC Scotland's political reporter John Knox looks back at the week in the Scottish Parliament.

Sir David King's plan to replace physicists with climate scientists is naive and misguided, writes David Wark

The Edinburgh scientist behind the "Big Bang" experiment said it is "pretty likely" the undiscovered particle will be found.

Scientists hail as a success the start of an experiment to recreate the conditions a few moments after the "Big Bang".

Scientists at the European Centre for Nuclear Research start the search for particles which gave the universe its form

The Welsh physicist leading the biggest particle physics experiment says it will not lead to the end of the world.

Scientists working from a laboratory at the bottom of Britain's deepest mine could beat a multibillion-pound Swiss project to crack the mystery of creation.

The former UK chief scientist says the climate challenge is so great, it demands the most brilliant minds tackle it.

A huge particle accelerator experiment is about to start and a tiny group of people believe it could spell the end of the world. But why are we so obsessed with the possibility of apocalypse?

Have you ever wondered how the Universe started? Professor Brian Cox is one of the LHC scientists at Cern. He answered some of your questions about the project.

A guide to the engineering miracle behind the biggest experiment in the world.

BBC News takes a look at the principal areas of science that will be explored by the Large Hadron Collider.

Detailed explanation of two specialised machines focusing on so-called "forward particles".