Scientists in Switzerland have begun the cooldown of a 312-foot-long test stand for the ...

For a mere moment after the Big Bang, no neutrons or protons are thought to have existed. These neutral and positively charged particles, respectively, make up the center of all atoms today. But ...

At Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider has powered down for the last time, ...

US physicists have shed light on a long-standing mystery after they captured rare experimental ...

Earlier this year, however, the UK government announced that it will no longer fund the upgrade of the LHCb experiment on the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) say they are planning to build a new world’s biggest particle ...

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.

As foretold, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider—among the most powerful heavy-ion colliders in the world, second only to CERN’s LHC—ran its final particles and ceased operations last Friday. This is ...

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At CERN’s Large Hadron Collider on the edge of Geneva, scientists have reported a surprising twist in the behavior of matter.

Physicists have detected neutrinos created by a particle collider. The discovery promises to deepen scientists' understanding of the subatomic particles, which were first spotted in 1956 and play a ...