Tech Billionaires Pledge $1 Billion to CERN for Future Circular Collider
Tech billionaires have pledged as much as €860 million ($1 billion) to help fund CERN’s Future Circular Collider,…
CERN upbeat as China halts particle accelerator mega-project
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research whose main offices also straddle the border near Geneva, seeks to…
Nanotube design could shrink particle accelerators to hair-thin size
New research suggests that particle accelerators capable of generating intense, coherent X-rays, which are typically produced only at…
Is China’s ‘God particle’ quest over? World’s largest collider project may be dropped
The quest to understand the “God particle” may have just hit a wall in China. An ambitious multibillion-dollar…
Scientists observe single top quark with W, Z bosons for first time
Researchers at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have detected a phenomenon that happens only every trillion proton collisions,…
Oxford team makes world’s first plasma ‘fireballs’ in CERN experiment
In a world first, plasma “fireballs” have been created in the lab setting using the Super Proton Synchrotron…
A Physics Experiment Turned Lead Into Gold
The ALICE Collaboration is a winner of the 2025 Gizmodo Science Fair for transforming lead into gold for…
CERN and fusion energy, advancing together
CERN and Fusion for Energy (F4E) sign a major framework collaboration agreement to advance scientific research and technological…
Scientists trace rare nuclei ‘island’ where physics rules break apart
Researchers at CERN have made a great step forward in revealing how atomic nuclei behave after they mapped…
CERN Deploys Cutting-Edge AI in “Impossible” Hunt for Higgs Decay
The Higgs boson gives particles mass, but its links to the lighter quarks are still largely untested. CMS…
ATTRACT celebrates successes at final conference
The initiative helped develop breakthrough detection and imaging technologies and tested a model for innovation in Europe Attendees…
With China, European Space Agency leaves politics to governments
The European Space Agency (ESA) has a comprehensive internal system in place to ensure that its collaboration with…