Outreach Event Archive 2024

On July 4 2012, a fifty-year-old search ended: the elusive Higgs boson, the missing piece of the Standard Model of particle physics, and key to understanding why the universe is filled with atoms and molecules, and why the sun has burned long enough for life to have emerged, was found ...

Please come along to our Higgs Halloween with guest speaker Dave Fairhurst. This will take place at the spooky Old Anatomy Lecture Theatre, where you will help solve the mysteries surrounding a murder. We will use physics to identify the murder weapon, narrow down the list of who handled it ...

Join us at Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh to celebrate CERN's 70th birthday Have you ever wondered about what the Universe around us is made of? The scientists who founded CERN - the European Lab for particle and nuclear physics - 70 years ago have the same question. Come along to speak ...