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

I recently visited CERN to tour the LHC, located 100m beneath Geneva, Switzerland, featuring a 27km long tunnel that is ...

In Geneva in 2012, CERN’s director general, Rolf-Dieter Heuer, announced to great fanfare that his team had discovered the Higgs boson particle. In short, using the LHC to smash particles ...

Alchemists eat your heart out. Researchers at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider achieved the once-impossible dream of alchemists by turning lead into gold — but only for a split second.

CERN wants to build a new particle accelerator that is four times larger than the already massive Large Hadron Collider. The project, called the Future Circular Collider, will cost in the ...

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

Discover how scientists at CERN transformed lead into gold for a moment using the LHC, echoing ancient alchemy dreams with modern physics.

Next week, physicists will meet in Venice to discuss the future of European particle physics research. Early in his career, ...

The Ax-4 space mission, carrying Polish astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski aboard the Dragon capsule, launched on ...