New director-general Mark Thomson discusses fundraising efforts and future priorities for Europe’s particle-physics ...

Physicists at CERN have discovered that antimatter falls down. Sure, it sounds like an obvious thing, but scientists haven’t yet been able to confirm that it responds to gravity in exactly the same ...

One of the world's most sophisticated scientific facilities is turning to ultra-low temperatures to try and unravel hidden ...

The old fantasy of transforming lead into gold is now a reality, made possible by some wildly inefficient physics at the ...

Significant recent advancements spearheaded with support from CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, are revealing deeper insights into the fundamental nature of our universe. The ...

The European Strategy Group tasked a working group to compare seven proposals for CERN’s next large-scale collider.

Scientists at CERN have reported on their first significant evidence for a process predicted by theory, paving the way for searches for evidence of new physics in particle processes that could explain ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Particles rush through a long tunnel in the Large Hadron Collider. Maximilien Brice/CERN, CC BY-SA When you push “start” on your ...

ALICE collaboration identifies three-phase process that allows particles to form despite energetically unfavourable ...