Mark Thomson, the new head of Europe's physics laboratory CERN, voiced confidence Tuesday about raising the billions of ...

Mark Thomson takes the reins at the CERN particle-physics lab, which recently received $1bn in private donations for its next ...

The old fantasy of transforming lead into gold is now a reality, made possible by some wildly inefficient physics at the ...

One of the world's most sophisticated scientific facilities is turning to ultra-low temperatures to try and unravel hidden ...

In a historic first for the laboratory, CERN has received $1 billion in private ...

In effect, it’s lab-grown gold, but at billions of dollars for a few atoms, it’s unlikely to shake the gold market.

This is what the creation of a Higgs Boson looks like to the Large Hadron Collider. (Credit: CERN) The Higgs boson is, if ...

Scientists have found new evidence that a pattern of “flow” observed in particles streaming ...

The European Strategy Group tasked a working group to compare seven proposals for CERN’s next large-scale collider.

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

Seventeen miles of underground tunnel, thousands of superconducting magnets, and protons whipped to a fraction below light ...

While smashing lead atoms into each other at extremely high speeds in an effort to mimic the state of the universe just after ...