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 ...

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

Scientists have found new evidence that a pattern of “flow” observed in particles streaming ...

Physicists at the world’s largest atom collider have observed three new exotic particles as they continue to search for clues about the mysterious forces that bind subatomic particles together, they ...

The revamped LHC will see more particle collisions and mind-blowing energy levels to hunt for dark matter and extra dimensions. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Several centuries ago, a branch of alchemy called chrysopoeia is said to have explored the possibilities of transforming widely available base metals into precious metals. Early practitioners never ...

Firing particles at each other at 99.99% of the speed of light, the LHC is back in the race to discover new physics. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

The letters “www” are typically followed by a “dot” — but not in this experiment. Around 270 WWW events, trios of particles called W bosons, appeared in an experiment at the world’s largest particle ...

Former UCSC graduate student Jessica Metcalfe takes a rest on the temporary catwalk inside the ATLAS cryostat at CERN, where she was installing cables to be connected to the detector’s inner tracker.