Note: CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is the world's leading laboratory for particle physics.

UNESCO: THEMES

CERN, the European particle physics laboratory in Geneva, physicists are now campaigning for its successor.

ECONOMIST: Particle accelerators

But that has now changed, with the preservation of several hundred such atoms for several minutes by Jeffrey Hangst and his colleagues at CERN, the main European particle-physics laboratory near Geneva.

ECONOMIST: Fundamental physics