The Large Hadron Collider is heading for another extended shutdown, a planned pause that will take the world’s most powerful accelerator offline just as its current run reaches full stride. Far from ...

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

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

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

Scientists have found new evidence that a pattern of “flow” observed in particles streaming ...

Mark Thomson takes the reins at the CERN particle-physics lab, which recently received $1bn in private donations for its next ...

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

The Large Hadron Collider is going to be shut down — not permanently, but for a pretty long time — and the famous atom smasher’s eventual final retirement is also something that top scientists are now ...

While smashing lead atoms into each other at extremely high speeds in an effort to mimic the state of the universe just after ...

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

The European Strategy Group tasked a working group to compare seven proposals for CERN’s next large-scale collider.