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

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 ...

Türkiye has been an associate member state of CERN since 2015 and takes part in major experiments such as ATLAS and CMS, ...

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has begun its first-ever collisions of oxygen ions, in the latest attempt to understand the early universe. The LHC is largely famous for its proton-proton collisions, ...

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

It might not be the legendary Higgs boson, but scientists at the world's largest particle accelerator have just discovered something else very interesting indeed. While on the hunt for the ...

In collisions at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, hotter than the Sun’s core by a staggering margin, scientists have finally solved a long-standing mystery: how delicate particles like deuterons and ...

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