The world's most powerful particle accelerator will undergo some major upgrades during the 4-year hiatus.

The world's most powerful particle accelerator will shutter operations Monday for four years of renovations to dramatically ...

For decades, physicists searched for a missing piece of nature's puzzle, an elusive particle believed to explain why matter ...

The world's most powerful particle accelerator will Monday shutter operations for four years of renovations to dramatically ...

The next head of Europe's CERN physics laboratory said Thursday that he favored moving forward with plans for a giant particle collider far more powerful than the collider that discovered the famous ...

François Englert, a Belgian theoretical physicist who played a pivotal role in the discovery of the so-called 'God ...

CERN scientists announced on Wednesday that they observed a particle that strongly resembles the long-sought after Higgs boson, the final missing ingredient in the standard model of particle Physics.

Researchers can't say for certain that a particle they discovered is the so-called "God particle," but the information they have "strongly indicates" it is. Shara Tibken was a managing editor at CNET ...

Scientists at CERN in Switzerland have announced the discovery of a new elementary particle, the first new particle since the Z boson was discovered way back in 1983. Curiously, CERN isn't calling ...

Head to Switzerland for a tour of CERN, the world’s largest particle physics research laboratory, to discover the secrets of ...

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A engineer faces the world's largest superconducting solenoid magnet, one of the experiments at CERN's Large Hadron ColliderFabrice Coffrini / AFP / Getty Images The ATLAS particle detector at the ...