After discovering the Higgs Boson — the particle that helps explain why matter has mass — CERN is preparing for its next ...

Proton-oxygen collisions at the LHC reveal how extreme cosmic rays trigger particle showers when they slam into Earth’s atmosphere.

Many people are aware that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN smashes tiny subatomic particles together at nearly the speed of light to test foundational laws of physics and discover new ...

Deep beneath the French-Swiss border, the world's largest scientific instrument has fallen silent. After years of smashing protons together at nearly the speed of light, CERN's Large Hadron Collider ...

Scientists working at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider may be seeing the strongest hints yet of physics beyond the Standard Model — the decades-old theory that explains the fundamental particles and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The CMS detector at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. (CERN) For years, strange signals have been emerging from inside the Large ...

It’s the end of an era for particle physicists: They just said good-bye to the famed Large Hadron Collider — in its current form, anyway. The LHC, the particle collider at the European particle ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest and most powerful atom smasher, has entered a planned four-year shutdown that ...

For a few fractions of a second after the Big Bang, the universe was in a truly peculiar state of matter. It is called ...