Why matter dominates over antimatter in our universe has long been a major cosmic mystery to physicists. A new finding by the ...

The world's largest particle collider produces roughly 89,000 gold nuclei every second, all from smashing lead atoms together at near-light-speed.

The world's biggest ... laboratory on the Swiss-French border, was built over a decade ago with two goals in mind. First, to establish the existence of the Higgs boson, the cornerstone particle ...

In this issue, we talk to Mark Thomson, who is set to take over running the world’s largest particle-physics lab on 1 January 2026. As CERN director-general, Thomson explains that a large part of his ...

There wasn't a lot of gold and it didn't last long, but the results are still impressive. For centuries, alchemists dreamed ...

Neutrinos have always been hard to explain – and now the detection of one so energetic it shouldn't exist may help illuminate ...

Medieval alchemists toiled unsuccessfully to change lead into gold, but physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland had better luck – though for only a microsecond.

Ireland has signed an associate membership agreement to join the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN). CERN is ...

Apply physical laws to the working of the cosmos, and work in the largest laboratory there is ... By combining astrophysics and elementary particle physics, Michigan Tech researchers can also study ...

Physicists at the world's largest particle accelerator have made ... the amount of CP violation predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics is far too small to explain the abundance ...