An invisible force has long eluded detection within the halls of the world’s most famous particle accelerator—until now.

Scientists from CERN have measured the speed of sound in the quark-gluon plasmas with record precision, a key step to ...

The Crosetto Foundation for the Reduction of Cancer Deaths, an accredited nonprofit, issues an “urgent appeal to Members of ...

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

The world’s largest atom smasher has conducted its first-ever collisions between protons and oxygen ions, as part of an ...

Far lighter than other ions collided at the LHC, oxygen (and neon) could tell us about conditions in the early universe.

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 ...

On June 11, the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine announced the result of a three-year study to set a ...

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.

CERN's ALICE experiment turned lead into gold—briefly—reviving alchemists' old dreams with modern nuclear physics.

At the CERN laboratory in Switzerland, particle physicist Jasper Kirkby studies the link between aerosols, cosmic rays and cloud formation, using the data to inform climate models. "It's ...