large hadron collider

For a few years, one of particle physics’ most unsettling numbers seemed to be pointing somewhere strange. The…

When fundamental particles are heavier or lighter than expected, physicists’ understanding of the universe can tip into the…

Physicists have measured the mass of one of the universe’s basic building blocks, the W boson particle. The…

Six Timepix chips developed at CERN will measure the radiation environment inside the spacecraft that will orbit the…

Deep inside every atom lies a restless world of quarks and gluons—the tiny building blocks that hold everything…

In 1930, a young physicist named Carl D. Anderson was tasked by his mentor with measuring the energies…

The world’s largest particle accelerator has been supplying heat to thousands of homes in France since mid-January, in…

In a historic first for the laboratory, CERN has received $1 billion in private donations to support the…

The Large Hadron Collider is going to be shut down — not permanently, but for a pretty long…

Tech billionaires have pledged as much as €860 million ($1 billion) to help fund CERN’s Future Circular Collider,…

Researchers at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have detected a phenomenon that happens only every trillion proton collisions,…

The ALICE Collaboration is a winner of the 2025 Gizmodo Science Fair for transforming lead into gold for…

Physicists achieve most accurate measurement yet of the W boson