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March 17th 2026

CERN Nails Down Elusive Heavy Proton Cousin After Detector Upgrade

The new particle, named Xi-cc-plus, carries two heavy charm quarks and is about four times heavier than an ordinary proton.

Physics & Chemistry Gayoung Lee Mar 17

February 2nd 2026

The Baby Universe Really Was a Goopy Soup, Research Suggests

The early universe is full of mysteries, but we can now at least be sure it was soupy.

Physics & Chemistry Gayoung Lee Feb 2

December 19th 2025

Tech Billionaires Pledge $1 Billion to CERN for Future Circular Collider

The first phase of the Future Circular Collider wouldn't be completed until the 2040s.

Physics & Chemistry Matt Novak Dec 19

September 22nd 2025

A Physics Experiment Turned Lead Into Gold

A particle physics team at CERN turned lead into gold 80,000 times per second.

Science Gayoung Lee Sep 22

July 25th 2025

Physicists Create First-Ever Antimatter Qubit, Making the Quantum World Even Weirder

In its second antimatter breakthrough this month, CERN announced it successfully created the first-ever antimatter qubit, paving the way to even weirder quantum experiments.

Physics & Chemistry Gayoung Lee Jul 25

July 16th 2025

CERN Physicists Find Key Piece of the Matter-Antimatter Puzzle

In a first, CERN physicists succeeded in observing matter-antimatter imbalance in baryons, fundamental particles that make up most of the observable universe.

Physics & Chemistry Gayoung Lee Jul 16

May 14th 2025

Physicists Turned Lead Into Gold—for a Fraction of a Second

Instead of using the Large Hadron Collider to smash atoms together, researchers briefly turned lead into gold by facilitating near-misses.

Physics & Chemistry Margherita Bassi May 14

April 10th 2025

Hell Yeah, We Might Get a Biblical Addition to the Large Hadron Collider

A report published late last month outlines MATHUSLA, a particle detector named for the longest-lived person in the Bible.

Physics & Chemistry Isaac Schultz Apr 10

April 1st 2025

It’s One Particle Accelerator, Michael. What Could It Cost—$17 Billion?

CERN says its Future Circular Collider has no technical hurdles—though the expected costs are exorbitant.

Physics & Chemistry Isaac Schultz Apr 1

March 23rd 2024

Your Guide to the Anomalous Universe

In Space Oddities , Harry Cliff explores the biggest unsolved mysteries in physics.

Physics & Chemistry Isaac Schultz Mar 23

April 26th 2022

The Large Hadron Collider Rebooted and Immediately Broke a World Record

The newly upgraded particle collider just shot protons to higher energies than ever before.

Physics & Chemistry Isaac Schultz Apr 26

March 8th 2022

Russians Barred From New Large Hadron Collider Experiments Over Ukraine Invasion

The CERN Council condemned the invasion and said there would be no new collaborations with the Russian scientific community.

Physics & Chemistry Isaac Schultz Mar 8

March 31st 2021

Physicists Laser-Cool Antimatter to Near Absolute Zero

For a little more than a week in July 2018, a team of physicists at CERN tried a new technique to slow down antimatter particles zipping around at breakneck speeds. Those 10 days of observation were the culmination of 10 years of development in an international collaboration called ALPHA, which oversaw the design and construction…

Physics & Chemistry Isaac Schultz Mar 31

March 19th 2021

Physicists Discover the Elusive Odderon, First Predicted 50 Years Ago

Scientists are celebrating the long-sought discovery of the odderon, a strange phenomenon that appears only rarely when protons collide at high energies, such as inside particle accelerators. Though the odderon was first predicted to exist in the early 1970s, it wasn’t until recently that physicists finally gathered the data they needed at CERN’s Large Hadron…

Physics & Chemistry Rose Pastore Mar 19

May 19th 2020

Why the U.S. Is Betting It All on the Most Puzzling Particle in the Universe

Nearly 14 billion years ago, a universe appeared in an unthinkably high-energy blast. Particles started to materialize out of that energy, as did their antiparticles, which are kind of like evil twins, a mirror image with the opposite electric charge. Each and every particle had an antiparticle, scientists believe, and they would annihilate each other…

Physics & Chemistry Ryan F. Mandelbaum May 19

March 11th 2020

New Analysis of Large Hadron Collider Results Confirms Something Weird Is Happening

A theory-defying anomaly has persisted in the latest results from a Large Hadron Collider experiment, according to new results. The world’s largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland, contains a host of experiments that seek to answer the unanswered questions about the nature of the universe. Mostly, these experiments have ruled out…

Physics & Chemistry Ryan F. Mandelbaum Mar 11

March 10th 2020

Graphic: V.Springel, Max-Planck Institut für Astrophysik, Garching bei München

A Wild, Six-Quark Particle Might Have Been Dark Matter All Along

Most of the matter in the universe is undetectable in any way except for the gravity it exerts. While some think this mysterious “dark matter” must be made up of unknown particles, others suggest a familiar particle could be the key. Dark matter has remained elusive, despite many searches to find something that could explain…

Physics & Chemistry Ryan F. Mandelbaum Mar 10

February 5th 2020

Release the Muons! Physics Breakthrough Will Lead to a New Kind of Particle Collider

The next generation of atom smasher could be a 100-kilometer-round ring, costing over $10 billion, with no promise of finding something as glamorous as last decade’s Higgs boson. But does the future of physics need to be so large? What if researchers could probe the secrets of the smallest particles using technology that was, well,…

Physics & Chemistry Ryan F. Mandelbaum Feb 5

November 25th 2019

CERN’s Oldest Particle Accelerator Is Still Running 60 Years Later

The oldest particle accelerator at CERN, home to the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, is celebrating its 60th birthday. It’s still running. The Proton Synchrotron (PS) accelerated its first protons on November 24, 1959. It was the world’s highest-energy accelerator when it first began running. Though it’s since lost the title, today it supplies protons…

Physics & Chemistry Ryan F. Mandelbaum Nov 25

Image: Zarija Lukic/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Let’s Pump the Brakes on the So-Called ‘No-Brainer Nobel Prize’

Researchers in Hungary have published the exciting new claim that they’ve discovered a new subatomic particle, but it’s nowhere near time to start talking about Nobel Prizes, as CNN (and now everyone who syndicates them) has done. Since 2015, the team at the Institute of Nuclear Research (Atomki) and the University of Debrecen claims to…

Physics & Chemistry Ryan F. Mandelbaum Nov 25

CERN

CERN Nails Down Elusive Heavy Proton Cousin After Detector Upgrade

The Baby Universe Really Was a Goopy Soup, Research Suggests

Tech Billionaires Pledge $1 Billion to CERN for Future Circular Collider

A Physics Experiment Turned Lead Into Gold

Physicists Create First-Ever Antimatter Qubit, Making the Quantum World Even Weirder

CERN Physicists Find Key Piece of the Matter-Antimatter Puzzle

Physicists Turned Lead Into Gold—for a Fraction of a Second

Hell Yeah, We Might Get a Biblical Addition to the Large Hadron Collider

It’s One Particle Accelerator, Michael. What Could It Cost—$17 Billion?

Your Guide to the Anomalous Universe

The Large Hadron Collider Rebooted and Immediately Broke a World Record

Russians Barred From New Large Hadron Collider Experiments Over Ukraine Invasion

Physicists Laser-Cool Antimatter to Near Absolute Zero

Physicists Discover the Elusive Odderon, First Predicted 50 Years Ago

Why the U.S. Is Betting It All on the Most Puzzling Particle in the Universe

New Analysis of Large Hadron Collider Results Confirms Something Weird Is Happening

A Wild, Six-Quark Particle Might Have Been Dark Matter All Along

Release the Muons! Physics Breakthrough Will Lead to a New Kind of Particle Collider

CERN’s Oldest Particle Accelerator Is Still Running 60 Years Later

Let’s Pump the Brakes on the So-Called ‘No-Brainer Nobel Prize’

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