Caitlin Gainey and some of her Yale friends spent the summer in Europe hiking in the mountains, strolling through medieval villages — and searching for subatomic particle collisions that few humans ...

On Tuesday, July 5, at a giant underground compound in Meyrin, Switzerland, physicists announced that they had discovered three "exotic" particles, never before seen by science — a feat accomplished ...

GENEVA — The physics lab that’s home to the world’s largest atom smasher announced on Tuesday the observation of three new “exotic particles” that could provide clues about the force that binds ...

THE European Organization for Nuclear Research has restarted its Large Hadron Collider after a three-year hiatus and new conspiracy theories are already being formed. Several theories are being formed ...

PREVESSIN, France, April 20 – Scientists at Europe’s physics research center will this week fire up the 16-mile (27-kilometer) Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the machine that found the Higgs boson ...

A decade ago, the Large Hadron Collider, Earth’s most powerful particle accelerator, proved the existence of an subatomic particle called the Higgs boson – thought to be a fundamental building block ...

Physicists exploring the universe’s biggest mysteries are now using their know-how to improve radiation therapy to treat cancer. As the world’s largest particle physics laboratory, the European ...

Experiments are being launched once again outside of Geneva at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN). After three years of upgrades and maintenance, research will continue again in the ...

Two beams of protons zipped around the Large Hadron Collider on Friday, marking the return of the world’s largest particle accelerator after over three years on hiatus. The European Organisation for ...

Sir, – I would like to add my support to the view expressed by Prof Denjoe O’Connor and Prof Brian Dolan (Letters, October 17th) that Ireland should become a member of Cern, the European Organisation ...