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

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

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

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

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

The Large Hadron Collider is heading for another extended shutdown, a planned pause that will take the world’s most powerful accelerator offline just as its current run reaches full stride. Far from ...

Proton collisions at the LHC appear wildly chaotic, but new data reveal a surprising underlying order. The findings confirm that a basic rule of quantum mechanics holds true even in extreme particle ...

New director-general Mark Thomson discusses fundraising efforts and future priorities for Europe’s particle-physics ...

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

The ALICE Collaboration is a winner of the 2025 Gizmodo Science Fair for transforming lead into gold for a fraction of a second and exposing the strange physics that goes on inside the Large Hadron ...

The Large Hadron Collider is going to be shut down — not permanently, but for a pretty long time — and the famous atom smasher’s eventual final retirement is also something that top scientists are now ...