The Large Hadron Collider is going to be shut down — not permanently, but for a pretty long time — and the famous atom ...

China’s decision to halt work on what was meant to be the world’s largest particle accelerator has reshaped the global race ...

China's ambitious new particle accelerator was meant to pick up where the Large Hadron Collider left off, but the project was ...

A prototype section of the proposed Cool Cooper Collider beam tunnel. Credit: Emilio Nanni/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Ever since the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, physicists have ...

Inside the Large Hadron Collider, protons slam together at nearly the speed of light, creating a brief fireball of quarks and ...

Researchers from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the University of California, Los ...

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A new study from Johns Hopkins University suggests that supermassive black holes—those cosmic behemoths lurking at the centers of galaxies—might already be generating the kinds of high-energy particle ...

Eventually, we will need a new particle collider to probe the intricacies of the universe. That's the Future Circular Collider (FCC), as it's currently known. According to the new CERN report, the FCC ...

Next head of Cern backs massive replacement for world’s largest machine to investigate mysteries of the universe ...

Physicists are exploring whether hidden dimensions and the shape of space could help explain why fundamental particles have ...

Ever since the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, physicists have wanted to build new particle colliders to better understand the properties of that elusive particle and probe elementary particle ...