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

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

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

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

CERN, the world’s largest atom smasher, says it has observed three new "exotic particles" while carrying out its third run of collisions. After a three-year pause for maintenance and routine checks, ...

CERN is revoking access for 500 Russian scientists over the Ukraine war, cutting them off from key facilities. Russian media has tried to cast the move as an own goal by the West. But experts say the ...

The respected scientific-research center CERN said this week that it is yanking out all of its Microsoft software after the company increased the prices it was charging tenfold. A CERN IT professional ...

On Tuesday, July 5, at a giant underground compound in Meyrin, Switzerland, physicists announced that they had discovered three "exotic" particles, never before seen by science — a feat accomplished ...

CERN, or the European Organization for Nuclear Research, restarted its Large Hadron Collider after a regular winter stop for maintenance. CERN is not reactivating the accelerator in connection with ...

We all use open-source software every day. What? You don't? Have you used Google, watched a Netflix show, or liked a buddy's Facebook post? Congrats, you're an open-source user. But, true, most of us ...

I entered the packed cafeteria with tray in hand, searching for the right food to eat. Around me, hundreds of people of all ages spoke excitedly in dozens of different languages, commenting on each ...

For more than half a century, scientists at the CERN particle physics laboratory (more formally, the European Organization for Nuclear Research) have been probing the inner workings of the universe.