For a while, in the Middle Ages, there was a real craze for trying to turn unassuming lead into pure, gleaming gold. Perhaps those ancient alchemists should have been building a particle collider.

Brookhaven National Laboratory has reached a key early milestone in developing radiofrequency control systems for the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC)—a next-generation research facility that will collide ...

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 ...

Physicists using the Large Hadron Collider have discovered a new particle - Copyright AFP/File VALENTIN FLAURAUD Physicists using the Large Hadron Collider have ...

Supernovas can become some of the most powerful particle colliders in the universe — but only if they pass a whole lot of gas before they explode, new research finds. For almost a century, astronomers ...

The Large Hadron Collider may soon uncover the secrets of dark photons. Should we be scared? (Spoiler: no). Back in the summer of 2022, TikTok lost its mind over news that the Large Hadron Collider — ...

A report published late last month outlines MATHUSLA, a particle detector named for the longest-lived person in the Bible. Reading time 2 minutes The world’s largest particle collider is set to get a ...

Last month, a group of researchers in the United States presented a rousing vision for the future of high-energy particle physics. The recommendations from the Particle Physics Project Prioritization ...

Mark Thomson will take over as the head of CERN in January 2026 – Copyright AFP ALFREDO ZUNIGA The next head of Europe’s CERN physics laboratory said Thursday ...

GENEVA (AP) — Top minds at the world’s largest atom smasher have released a blueprint for a much bigger successor that could vastly improve research into the remaining enigmas of physics. The plans ...