Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

Cost measures CERN is proposing the Future Circular Collider to study the Higgs boson in great detail, but can it afford the $18bn price tag? (Courtesy: CERN/Polar Media) Last November I visited the ...

Seventeen miles of underground tunnel, thousands of superconducting magnets, and protons whipped to a fraction below light ...

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

Physicists at the world’s largest atom collider have observed three new exotic particles as they continue to search for clues about the mysterious forces that bind subatomic particles together, they ...

Mark Thomson, the new head of Europe's physics laboratory CERN, voiced confidence Tuesday about raising the billions of dollars needed to build by far the world's biggest particle accelerator.

Were it not for a phenomenon called CP violation, we would probably not exist. A new analysis of particles smashing together at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is helping researchers better understand ...

This is what the creation of a Higgs Boson looks like to the Large Hadron Collider. (Credit: CERN) The Higgs boson is, if ...

Firing particles at each other at 99.99% of the speed of light, the LHC is back in the race to discover new physics. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

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

Several centuries ago, a branch of alchemy called chrysopoeia is said to have explored the possibilities of transforming widely available base metals into precious metals. Early practitioners never ...

The particles that are in an atom: protons, neutrons and electrons The particles that are in protons and neutrons: quarks The four fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetism, the strong force and ...