The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a machine designed to shed light on conditions just after the Big Bang, could be restarted in September. The LHC stopped working on September 19 last year due to a ...

A few weeks ago, the LHC stopped colliding protons and started to slam lead ions together. The resulting collisions create a quark-gluon plasma that hasn't been common since a fraction of a second ...

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GENEVA (AP) — Scientists switched on the world's largest atom smasher Friday night for the first time since the $10 billion machine suffered a spectacular failure more than a year ago. It took a year ...

In a cavernous tunnel beneath the French–Swiss border, physicists have briefly recreated conditions that existed microseconds after the Big Bang and, in the process, knocked lead atoms into becoming ...