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 ...

Europe's physics lab CERN on Thursday said private donors had pledged $1 billion towards the construction of a new particle ...

After a decade of painstaking measurements, scientists have delivered a major plot twist in particle physics: a ...

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

Norbert Holtkamp has been appointed as the new director of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, effective Jan. 12, 2026.

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

"Precision in these measurements is critical, as even subtle discrepancies could signal deviations from the model — potentially revealing new physics." ...

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

Researchers from TUM, working at CERN, have made a groundbreaking discovery that reveals how deuterons are formed. Another long-standing question in particle physics has been answered. Scientists ...

If you get a chance to visit a computer history museum and see some of the very old computers, you’ll think they took up a full room. But if you ask, you’ll often find that the power ...

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