China's ambitious new particle accelerator was meant to pick up where the Large Hadron Collider left off, but the project was put on pause. Here's the story.

Once a surprise to physicists, these particles are useful tools inside and outside the realm of particle physics.

China’s decision to halt work on what was meant to be the world’s largest particle accelerator marked a sharp turn in the ...

Physicists at the world's largest particle accelerator have made a first-of-its-kind discovery about antimatter that could help solve one of the universe's biggest mysteries. The discovery — made at ...

China’s decision to halt work on what was meant to be the world’s largest particle accelerator has reshaped the global race ...

On Nov. 11, 1974, two research teams rocked the particle physics world when they announced they had independently discovered a new subatomic particle – the J/psi. The particle’s existence called for a ...

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 ...

The Energy Department has awarded a $5 billion contract to a nonprofit organization that will help run the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. Fermi Forward Discovery Group is ...

Texas A&M University professor Peter McIntyre and his colleagues want to build a particle accelerator around the rim of the Gulf of Mexico in order to discover the most fundamental building blocks of ...