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 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 ...

One of the world's most sophisticated scientific facilities is turning to ultra-low temperatures to try and unravel hidden secrets of our Universe.

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

Scientists have found new evidence that a pattern of “flow” observed in particles streaming ...

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

While smashing lead atoms into each other at extremely high speeds in an effort to mimic the state of the universe just after ...

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