CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is one of the world’s most important and renowned centers for fundamental physics research. In its large-scale experimental facilities, scientists ...

Blasting meteorite samples with CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron, the team found that the material "became stronger". That ...

Okay, CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) might have uncovered the Higgs boson and helped redefine our concept of physical ...

A new heat exchange system between the LHC and the French town of Ferney-Voltaire is directing waste heat energy from CERN's accelerator to warm thousands of homes and businesses.

CERN's Large Hadron Collider now heats thousands of French homes with waste heat, turning particle physics research into ...

Using the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, scientists have found that the quark-gluon ...

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

New director-general Mark Thomson discusses fundraising efforts and future priorities for Europe’s particle-physics ...

The old fantasy of transforming lead into gold is now a reality, made possible by some wildly inefficient physics at the ...

Cost measures CERN is proposing the Future Circular Collider to study the Higgs boson in great detail, but can it afford the ...

Behind the world’s most powerful particle collider, CERN physicists guard secrets that could change how we see reality. These ...

For years, CERN’s particle experiments have fueled speculation about the possibility of creating a black hole. While the idea ...