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…
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There’s a tired, much-debunked doomsday theory pushed by British physicist Martin Rees that powerful particle colliders…
An enormous weather balloon in Antarctica spotted what looked like a high-energy particle from outer space striking the…
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…
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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…
Particle accelerators have a lot of important jobs, like looking for new stuff by slamming beams of old stuff together.…
Physicist Usama Hussain laughed uncomfortably every time the conversation even got close to the question, “Do you look…
Four British schoolboys had just been called from class. They were ten days away from their A-level exams, the ones…
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND— Hiding in the suburbs behind trees and a meadow with furry brown donkeys is a warehouse with an…
Conceptually, particle physics experiments are surprisingly simple. Smash a shitload of particles together, and look at…
CERN’s Large Hadron Collider beneath Geneva, Switzerland isn’t just one, but a handful of experiments sprinkled along…
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