CERN has just upgraded the world’s largest particle accelerator after successfully powering a new ...

CERN's large hadron collider is responsible for discovering the Higgs boson particle in 2012, which confirmed a hypothesis from as early as 1964.

The famous particle accelerator has gone silent, but its next chapter could usher in a new era of particle physics.

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva switched off its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on Monday morning to begin a planned major overhaul, aiming to boost its collision power ...

The world's most powerful particle accelerator will Monday shutter operations for four years of renovations to dramatically boost its collision-capacity and the potential for unlocking one of the ...

And no, they didn’t shut down ‘cuz it was gonna create a black hole. LHC will be replaced with an upgrade—HiLumi LHC.

To learn more about the nature of matter, energy, space, and time, physicists smash high-energy particles together in large accelerator machines, creating sprays of millions of particles per second of ...

Particle accelerators reveal the heart of nuclear matter by smashing together atoms at close to the speed of light. The high-energy collisions produce a shower of subatomic fragments that scientists ...

It begins on Canada’s West Coast, but it leads, ultimately, to the world’s biggest physics experiment, the Large Hadron Collider – a machine that recreates conditions microseconds after the Big Bang – ...

One of the most important discoveries in physics in a long time was made there 14 years ago, and now the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator in Geneva is being shut down for several years ...