What Is the Higgs Boson Particle, and Why Is It So Important?

This is what the creation of a Higgs Boson looks like to the Large Hadron Collider. (Credit: CERN) The Higgs boson is, if ...
Nature

What a $1-billion pledge means for CERN’s ambitious supercollider plans

New director-general Mark Thomson discusses fundraising efforts and future priorities for Europe’s particle-physics ...
New Atlas

CERN supercollider gets sustainable side hustle heating local homes

Okay, CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) might have uncovered the Higgs boson and helped redefine our concept of physical ...
Physics WorldOpinion

The Future Circular Collider is unduly risky – CERN needs a ‘Plan B’

Cost measures CERN is proposing the Future Circular Collider to study the Higgs boson in great detail, but can it afford the ...
El Adelantado de Segovia

At CERN, the Large Hadron Collider manages to turn lead into gold and revives alchemy as a ...

The old fantasy of transforming lead into gold is now a reality, made possible by some wildly inefficient physics at the ...
Opinion
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Why CERN is where modern physics happens

CERN isn’t flashy—it’s disciplined, methodical, and precise. Beneath quiet countryside, scientists run the most complex machine humanity has ever built. This episode explores what actually happens ...