A theory-defying anomaly has persisted in the latest results from a Large Hadron Collider experiment, according to…
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…
Scientists have announced the observation of “CP violation in a D0 meson” at CERN, a discovery that will appear in…
A scientific collaboration has released a concept design for the Large Hadron Collider’s successor, an enormous new…
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The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest atom smasher, will be turned off for the next two years for upgrades.…
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…
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September 10 marked the 10th anniversary of when the Large Hadron Collider first powered on. Since it’s already…
This month, Italian physicists will turn on an experiment hunting for a fifth, dark force of nature, the Guardian…
You can feasibly put anything inside the world’s largest physics experiment, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in…
Scientists can’t take pictures of the Higgs boson. But they can find proof of its existence by watching “E=mc2” play…
Today, workers at the world’s largest atom smasher are breaking ground on a performance-enhancing upgrade that will…
It appears that the Universe is full of dark matter—around six times more of it than there is regular matter. It has…
Scientists have uncovered some preliminary evidence for a nuclear physics effect first predicted back in the 1970s.…
Nobel Prize winner Frank Wilczek was optimistic back in 2012. After all, he’d just won a wager after scientists had…
We live in a universe filled with weird stuff that we don’t really understand: dark matter. Physicists have observed…
Particle accelerators have a lot of important jobs, like looking for new stuff by slamming beams of old stuff…