CERN | Calming Bedtime Reading for Sleep

Drift off with calm bedtime reading about the polygraph, a gentle way to ease into sleep while finding relief from insomnia. In this soothing bedtime reading for sleep and restless nights, you’ll explore how polygraphs work, where they came from, and why lie detection has fascina ...  Show more

Drift off with a calm bedtime reading about circadian rhythm designed to support sleep and soothe insomnia. This calm bedtime reading explores the body’s internal clock so you can learn about sleep patterns while finding relief from insomnia. Tonight Benjamin reads about the natu ...  Show more

When former physicist James Gillies sat down for dinner in 2009 with actors Tom Hanks and Ayelet Zurer, joined by legendary director Ron Howard, he could scarcely believe the turn of events. Gillies was the head of communications at CERN, and the Hollywood trio were in town for t ...  Show more

It’s possible that the entire observable universe is inside a black hole. All we need to do to find out is … build a gigantic particle collider around the moon. Guest: James Beacham, particle physicist at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN For show transcripts, go to vox.com/unxtr ...  Show more

Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider claim the discovery of the Higgs boson particle. Alan Barr of Oxford's Physics department, UK physics coordinator for LHC's ATLAS experiment, describes what it means for science. 

This week, a special tribute to the revered British scientist, Peter Higgs, who died on the 8th of April, aged 94. His friend, Lyn Evans, tells us about the 40-year search for the eponymous Higgs boson: the God particle that provides some of the answers to life, the Universe and ...  Show more