Large Hadron Collider

Physicists working with the famous Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, say recent experiments could…

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

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

Particle accelerators reveal the heart of nuclear matter by smashing together atoms at close to the speed of…

One of the central questions in particle physics is how fundamental particles acquire mass. The top quark, as…

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,…

Nature loves symmetry. Nowhere is this more evident than at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), where the vast…

Large Hadron Collider Experiments Hint at ‘Undiscovered Physics’ That Could Soon Overturn the Standard Model, Physicists Say