Mark Thomson, the new head of Europe's physics laboratory CERN, voiced confidence Tuesday about raising the billions of ...
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 ...
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 ...
While smashing lead atoms into each other at extremely high speeds in an effort to mimic the state of the universe just after ...
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 ...
Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.