As the name suggests, particle accelerators involve accelerating subatomic particles to incredibly high speeds and smashing ...

Discovered in 2012, the Higgs boson is vital for understanding mass in particle physics, confirming decades of theoretical ...

It might not be the legendary Higgs boson, but scientists at the world's largest particle accelerator have just discovered something else very interesting indeed. While on the hunt for the ...

To unlock the secrets of dark matter, scientists could turn to supermassive black holes and their ability to act as natural superpowered particle colliders. That's according to new research that found ...

Matter and antimatter are like mirror opposites: except for their electric charge, they are the same in every respect. Well, almost the same—very occasionally matter and antimatter behave differently ...

The nine Boston University professors involved in the Large Hadron Collider – the world’s largest particle accelerator – said they are looking forward to understanding some of the universe’s most ...

The ALICE Collaboration is a winner of the 2025 Gizmodo Science Fair for transforming lead into gold for a fraction of a second and exposing the strange physics that goes on inside the Large Hadron ...

When trying to answer questions as deep as “what makes up the universe,” advance planning is key. On June 11, the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine announced the result of a ...

In the face of eye-watering costs, long construction times and the Trump administration's slashing of federal science funding, physicists have proposed a cheaper alternative to the next-generation of ...

Members of the STAR collaboration, a group of physicists collecting and analyzing data from particle collisions at the ...

The Large Hadron Collider has led to groundbreaking discoveries, but scientists are now focused on an even larger project—a 91-kilometer ring buried beneath the Swiss-French countryside. This $17 ...