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Buried 300 feet underground, the Collider smashes subatomic particles together with enormous energy. As Lesley Stahl reported in 2015, by studying the collisions, scientists made a major discovery: the Higgs boson. Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, the particle's namesake, died this week at 94.
In 2020, Anderson Cooper reported on companies seeking out potential employees with autism, and the employment opportunities being made available to people on the autism spectrum.
Thirty years ago, Immaculée Ilibagiza survived the Rwandan genocide by hiding in a tiny bathroom with several other Tutsi women for three months. In 2006, Ilibagiza spoke to 60 Minutes about the atrocity and the value of forgiveness.
Rare earth elements and metals used to make cellphones, supercomputers and more are sitting on the ocean floor, ready to be mined by multiple countries. In 2019, Bill Whitaker reported on the promise of deep sea mining.
In 2009, Lesley Stahl reported on flaws in eyewitness identification procedures that led to the wrongful conviction of people like Ronald Cotton, who was later exonerated by DNA evidence for the rape of Jennifer Thompson.
Ila Borders was the first woman to pitch in men's professional baseball. In 1998, 60 Minutes profiled then-23-year-old Borders, who told Mike Wallace, "I've always had this fierce spirit of doing what I want to do."
Nearly two-thousand years ago, Mount Vesuvius buried the ancient city of Herculaneum, and with it, a library full of ancient papyrus scrolls. In 2018, Bill Whitaker reported on an international race to unravel the scrolls' secrets.
"That's magnificent," said Bill Whitaker as he watched wild wolves in Yellowstone National Park in 2018. Wolves were eradicated in the American West until the endangered species was reintroduced in the 1990s, and their return led both to controversy and to unforeseen and positive impacts.
In 2015, 60 Minutes went inside the construction of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Founding director Lonnie Bunch said the museum would allow America "to remember how much we as a country have been improved, changed, challenged, and made better by the African American experience."
In 2004, 60 Minutes chronicled Jon Stewart's comedic coverage of the presidential election campaigns. Two decades later, Stewart is returning to "The Daily Show," owned by the same company as 60 Minutes, to give his take on the upcoming 2024 election.
