In effect, it’s lab-grown gold, but at billions of dollars for a few atoms, it’s unlikely to shake the gold market.

Seventeen miles of underground tunnel, thousands of superconducting magnets, and protons whipped to a fraction below light ...

The Large Hadron Collider is heading for another extended shutdown, a planned pause that will take the world’s most powerful accelerator offline just as its current run reaches full stride. Far from ...

The old fantasy of transforming lead into gold is now a reality, made possible by some wildly inefficient physics at the ...

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 ...

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

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

Mark Thomson takes the reins at the CERN particle-physics lab, which recently received $1bn in private donations for its next ...

Could a black hole on Earth ever exist? What would happen if it did? Join Hank Green for a fascinating video about the Large ...

Inside the Large Hadron Collider, protons slam together at nearly the speed of light, creating a brief fireball of quarks and gluons that looks, at first glance, like pure chaos. New work from CERN ...

The European Strategy Group tasked a working group to compare seven proposals for CERN’s next large-scale collider.