The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has begun its first-ever collisions of oxygen ions, in the latest attempt to understand the ...

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) gets a breath of fresh air as it collides beams of protons and oxygen ions for the very first ...

The world’s largest atom smasher has conducted its first-ever collisions between protons and oxygen ions, as part of an ...

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Nearly 50 years ago, physicists floated a bold idea: our universe might be stuck in a false vacuum. This state feels stable, ...

Iris van Herpen has an on-going collaboration with CERN. The Dutch fashion designer’s latest project, with photographer Nick ...

The Large Hadron Collider is one of the biggest experiments in history, but it’s also one of the hardest to interpret. Unlike ...

This campaign will cover a wide range of research, from the study of cosmic rays to the strong force and quark-gluon plasma, ...

There's nothing to get a scientist's heart pumping like a good, old-fashioned statistical debate. When it comes to topics ...

Brookhaven National Lab has received some noisy guests this summer—a brood of cicadas that have been incubating for the last ...

On June 11, the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine announced the result of a three-year study to set a ...

Though gold and diamonds are precious materials, they're nowhere near the most expensive thing in the universe. In fact, the ...