In its first moments, the infant universe was a trillion-degree-hot soup of quarks and gluons. These elementary particles ...

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

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

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

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

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

Türkiye has been an associate member state of CERN since 2015 and takes part in major experiments such as ATLAS and CMS, ...

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

One of the world's most sophisticated scientific facilities is turning to ultra-low temperatures to try and unravel hidden secrets of our Universe.

CERN's ALICE collaboration reveals how fragile deuterons survive high-energy collisions, impacting models of cosmic rays and ...

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