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

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

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

The Large Hadron Collider is entering a rare quiet spell, with its proton collisions halted so engineers can prepare the machine for a more powerful future. The shutdown is not a sign of trouble so ...

Cost measures CERN is proposing the Future Circular Collider to study the Higgs boson in great detail, but can it afford the ...

CERN's new supercollider will be 8 times more powerful than the LHC, the largest and most powerful in the world. Physicists could use it to solve mysteries about the nature of our universe. Based on ...

GENEVA — The research center that is home to the world’s largest particle accelerator is celebrating its 70th anniversary on Tuesday, with the physicists who run it aiming to unlock secrets about dark ...