The Large Hadron Collider will be shut down, paving the way for a major upgrade, and perhaps its eventual, even bigger ...

The Large Hadron Collider is entering a rare quiet spell, with its proton collisions halted so engineers can prepare the ...

Since the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, physicists have made considerable progress in exploring its properties. Does this mean the subject is closed? Far from it! In new results presented at ...

China's ambitious new particle accelerator was meant to pick up where the Large Hadron Collider left off, but the project was ...

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a massive scientific experimental facility at the European Organization for Nuclear Research ...

After more than 30 years of planning, building and testing, the Large Hadron Collider is providing answers that could fundamentally change the way in which we understand the universe. CERN, the ...

The Standard Model is, essentially, an instructional booklet that describes how subatomic particles and forces interact. It’s made up of 16 particles total: 12 matter particles and four force-carrier ...

Next head of Cern backs massive replacement for world’s largest machine to investigate mysteries of the universe ...

Deep beneath the serene landscape straddling the border of France and Switzerland, a marvel of modern science and engineering lies in wait. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, a massive particle ...

On April 8, 2024, British theoretical physicist Peter Ware Higgs passed away at the age of 94. It was almost 12 years ago, on July 4, 2012, in a fairly inauspicious lecture hall located in Geneva, ...

For his next trick, your cosmic correspondent for the past quarter-century will (try to) retire. By Dennis Overbye A musical about particle physics is under development, with David Henry Hwang, the ...

Scientists running the Large Hadron Collider, aka the "big bang machine", announced Friday they've discovered a brand new particle during one of their experiments. The discovery's announcement first ...