The world’s largest atom smasher has conducted its first-ever collisions between protons and oxygen ions, as part of an ambitious campaign to include a series of historic firsts, among which ...

I recently visited CERN to tour the LHC, located 100m beneath Geneva, Switzerland, featuring a 27km long tunnel that is ...

Iris van Herpen has an on-going collaboration with CERN. The Dutch fashion designer’s latest project, with photographer Nick ...

“If you go to our sun, you have 15-million- [degree] temperatures,” Schweda explained. “The hottest stars [are] 100 million.

Alchemists eat your heart out. Researchers at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider achieved the once-impossible dream of alchemists by turning lead into gold — but only for a split second. The world ...

The Ax-4 space mission, carrying Polish astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski aboard the Dragon capsule, launched on ...

CERN, the world's largest particle physics laboratory, reported the results on May 8. How does the collider make it happen? In the collider, lead ions are fired at each other at nearly the speed ...

CERN wants to build a new particle accelerator that is four times larger than the already massive Large Hadron Collider. The project, called the Future Circular Collider, will cost in the ...

CERN Director-General Fabiola Gianotti said the future collider “could become the most extraordinary instrument ever built by humanity to study the constituents and the laws of nature at the ...

Since it was tackling that problem anyway, CERN decided to make a shipping container for antimatter, allowing it to be put on a truck and potentially taken to labs throughout Europe.

Next week, physicists will meet in Venice to discuss the future of European particle physics research. Early in his career, ...