In physics, there are two great pillars of thought that don't quite fit together. The Standard Model of particle physics ...

Even the most powerful telescopes have not yet been able to see far enough back in time to witness events from the Big Bang.

An unforeseen feature in proton-proton collisions previously observed by the CMS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider ...

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has begun its first-ever collisions of oxygen ions, in the latest attempt to understand the ...

This podcast features an interview with Sara Alderweireldt, who is a physicist working on the ATLAS experiment at CERN – the ...

Scientists are on the trail of a mysterious five-particle structure that could challenge one of the biggest theories in ...

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) gets a breath of fresh air as it collides beams of protons and oxygen ions for the very first ...

A new study proposes that discovering a single exotic particle at the LHC could falsify string theory as we know it.

Scientists at CERN have observed an unexpected phenomenon within the world’s largest particle accelerator that suggests that ...

The world’s largest atom smasher has conducted its first-ever collisions between protons and oxygen ions, as part of an ...

The ATLAS and ALICE collaborations have announced the first results of a new way to measure the “radial flow” of quark–gluon ...

Particles orbiting a black hole could collide at colossal energies, generating collision products that may offer valuable ...