The old fantasy of transforming lead into gold is now a reality, made possible by some wildly inefficient physics at the ...

Cost measures CERN is proposing the Future Circular Collider to study the Higgs boson in great detail, but can it afford the $18bn price tag? (Courtesy: CERN/Polar Media) Last November I visited the ...

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

Mark Thomson, the new head of Europe's physics laboratory CERN, voiced confidence Tuesday about raising the billions of dollars needed to build by far the world's biggest particle accelerator.

The world’s largest particle accelerator has been supplying heat to thousands of homes in ...

CERN's ALICE collaboration reveals how fragile deuterons survive high-energy collisions, impacting models of cosmic rays and ...

In effect, it’s lab-grown gold, but at billions of dollars for a few atoms, it’s unlikely to shake the gold market.

Learn how physicists recreated the early universe’s primordial soup, known as quark-gluon plasma, and discovered how it responds when particles race through it.

China is currently building a particle accelerator that is nearly four times larger than the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. This device could soon ...

Founder of the world wide web says commercialisation means the net has been ‘optimised for nastiness’, but collaboration and compassion can prevail ...

The University of Wyoming Harry C. Vaughan Planetarium is planning to celebrate the expected Artemis II launch mission during ...

The 27-km LHC has eight surface points. Point 8, home of the LHCb experiment, is located close to the French town of ...