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.

In a historic first for the laboratory, CERN has received $1 billion in private ...

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 ...

Scientists analyzing data from heavy ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)—the world's most powerful particle ...

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.

I visited CERN to tour the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which is located 100 meters beneath Geneva, Switzerland. The facility ...

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 ...