'60 Minutes': Inside the Collider

Q&A: CERN CIO on black holes and budget crunches
As head of IT at CERN, Wolfgang von Rueden plays a key role in the nuclear research lab's quest to unravel the nature of the universe through the...

Date set for restart of Large Hadron Collider
CERN's ground-breaking particle accelerator, which was shut down after a malfunction caused a leak of liquid helium, is scheduled to begin operating...

The Large Hadron Collider: an appeal to CNET readers
Given the Collider's unfortunate breakdown, readers should make a serious commitment to find it a new name.

'60 Minutes' preview: The 'Big Bang' machine
In the season premiere, correspondent Steve Kroft descends into the Large Hadron Collider, which aims to provide insight into the formation of the...

Large Hadron Collider downed by faulty transformer
Not long after the world's largest particle collider became operational, a transformer that helps cool part it malfunctioned, forcing operations to...