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

The Large Hadron Collider is entering a rare quiet spell, with its proton collisions halted so engineers can prepare the ...

China's Circular Electron Positron Collider was meant to pick up where the Large Hadron Collider left off, but the project ...

China’s decision to halt work on what was meant to be the world’s largest particle accelerator marked a sharp turn in the ...

For the first time in CERN’s history, private donors (individuals and philanthropic foundations) have agreed to support a CERN flagship research project. Recently, a group of friends of CERN, ...

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

Particle and nuclear physics evokes evokes images of huge accelerators probing the extremes of matter. But in this round-up ...

CERN, the world’s largest atom smasher, says it has observed three new "exotic particles" while carrying out its third run of collisions. After a three-year pause for maintenance and routine checks, ...

A May 15 post on X, formerly Twitter, (direct link, archive link) shows a video of scantily-clad people dancing and writhing on a stage before a person in a goat-headed costume comes out shouting.

The European Laboratory for Elementary Particle Physics is one of the world's leading scientific institutions. Securing it ...

The world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator smashed protons together on Friday, bringing scientists closer to understanding the Big Bang. CERN researchers put three beams of protons ...