Europe's physics lab CERN on Thursday said private donors had pledged $1 billion toward the construction of a new particle accelerator that would be by far the world's biggest.

Behind every particle collision generated at the Large Hadron Collider is a multitude of technical feats. One of these is ...

An invisible force has long eluded detection within the halls of the world’s most famous particle accelerator—until now.

CERN is soon to decide on the construction of a gigantic successor to the LHC. Several billionaires have now pledged money ...

The infrastructure for the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) marked a significant logistical and technical development ...

Norbert Holtkamp, a veteran of international research, takes over leadership of the particle physics laboratory in suburban ...

BATAVIA, Ill. (WLS) -- Fermilab in west suburban Batavia broke ground on a new particle accelerator project Friday. The new machine will power cutting-edge physics experiments for years to come by ...

Exciting news from the world of science. In a study published in the journal Nature Physics, scientists at CERN in ...

Particle accelerators are usually huge structures—think of the 3.2-km-long SLAC National Accelerator Lab in Stanford, ...

A California-based company is getting $150M from the Trump Administration to build a particle accelerator at Albany Nanotech.

Particle accelerators could be incredibly useful for medicine – if they weren’t so huge. The SLAC accelerator, for example, is almost 2 mi (3.2 km) long, while CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) runs ...