large hadron collider

Despite the stereotype of a lone, wild-haired Einstein working tirelessly at a chalkboard, today’s biggest…

A theory-defying anomaly has persisted in the latest results from a Large Hadron Collider experiment, according to…

This decade marked not just one but a series of turning points in the history of physics.

Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider triumphantly announced the discovery of the Higgs boson back in the summer…

Physicists at Fermilab have produced and tested a powerful magnet of the sort that could appear in the next…

New results from the world’s largest particle accelerator illuminate the structure of the pentaquark, an exotic…

A scientific collaboration has released a concept design for the Large Hadron Collider’s successor, an enormous new…

The universe began with a bang—and things immediately got weird.

The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest atom smasher, will be turned off for the next two years for upgrades.…

Scientists this week released a conceptual design report for a next-generation particle accelerator in China, which…

Gravity is incredibly weak. Just think: You can lift your foot despite the mass of the entire Earth pulling against…

There’s a tired, much-debunked doomsday theory pushed by British physicist Martin Rees that powerful particle…

An enormous weather balloon in Antarctica spotted what looked like a high-energy particle from outer space striking…

The European Union passed its disastrous Copyright Directive this week, including amended versions of its onerous…

September 10 marked the 10th anniversary of when the Large Hadron Collider first powered on. Since it’s already…

You can feasibly put anything inside the world’s largest physics experiment, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in…

Today, workers at the world’s largest atom smasher are breaking ground on a performance-enhancing upgrade that will…

There are few easier ways to get people to read your website than to scare them. That’s how we ended up with the…

A million Russian artillery shells helped scientists discover the Higgs boson. And all over the world, remnants of…

Nobel Prize winner Frank Wilczek was optimistic back in 2012. After all, he’d just won a wager after scientists had…