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

The shutdown, which began on June 29, marks the start of a planned four-year upgrade that will transform the collider into a ...

Below the snow-covered peaks of the Andes Mountains, among scattered rocks and the scrub of prairie bushes, there sits at this very moment a 12-ton polyethylene tank holding 3,000 gallons of pure ...

Nicknamed the "God particle", the Higgs boson became one of the most sought-after discoveries in modern science. On July 4, 2012, researchers from the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, or ...