Seventeen miles of underground tunnel, thousands of superconducting magnets, and protons whipped to a fraction below light ...
In its first moments, the infant universe was a trillion-degree-hot soup of quarks and gluons. These elementary particles ...
Mark Thomson takes the reins at the CERN particle-physics lab, which recently received $1bn in private donations for its next ...
In a historic first for the laboratory, CERN has received $1 billion in private ...
Scientists have found new evidence that a pattern of “flow” observed in particles streaming ...
In effect, it’s lab-grown gold, but at billions of dollars for a few atoms, it’s unlikely to shake the gold market.
The old fantasy of transforming lead into gold is now a reality, made possible by some wildly inefficient physics at the ...
This is what the creation of a Higgs Boson looks like to the Large Hadron Collider. (Credit: CERN) The Higgs boson is, if ...
Mark Thomson, the new head of Europe's physics laboratory CERN, voiced confidence Tuesday about raising the billions of dollars needed to build by far the world's biggest particle accelerator.- 'Giant ...
The European Strategy Group tasked a working group to compare seven proposals for CERN’s next large-scale collider.
Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.
Cost measures CERN is proposing the Future Circular Collider to study the Higgs boson in great detail, but can it afford the $18bn price tag? (Courtesy: CERN/Polar Media) Last November I visited the ...