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

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

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.

(Elodie LE MAOU/AFP/AFP) The chief of the CERN physics laboratory says China's decision to pause its major particle accelerator project presents an "opportunity" to ensure Europe's rival plan goes ...

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

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

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

GENEVA — Top minds at the world’s largest atom smasher have released a blueprint for a much bigger successor that could vastly improve research into the remaining enigmas of physics. The plans for the ...

CERN’s ambition to build an accelerator three times as large as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) took a significant step forward on 31 March with the release of a massive feasibility study for the ...

Seventeen miles of underground tunnel, thousands of superconducting magnets, and protons whipped to a fraction below light ...