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.

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 ...

JWST spots a mature early-universe spiral as CERN reveals how light nuclei form in extreme collisions, challenging core ...

Smaller than an atom, but majorly important: introducing the quark! Quarks helped make sense of particle physics, and we'll ...

Physicists at CERN have discovered a tiny asymmetry in charm quarks that may explain why matter survived the Big Bang. This video breaks down how a small rule break in particle physics could be the ...

Another long-standing mystery in particle physics has finally been solved. An international research team of the ALICE ...

An interview with Marumi Kado highlights the challenges and opportunities of the Future Circular Collider in particle physics ...

An international research team including Korean scientists has measured the precise properties of a 'tetraquark,' a particle made of four quarks, for the first time. Quarks are the smallest elementary ...

Although its existence had been theorized for decades, the Higgs boson was finally observed to exist in 2012 at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Since then, it has continued to be heavily ...

How the world of the smallest particles is structured, what is known about fundamental forces, and what particles have to do with the Big Bang ...

Illustration of a tetraquark composed of two charm quarks and two charm antiquarks. (Image: CERN) To date, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN has discovered 80 particles. The most famous is the ...

Evidence of a particle made up of four tightly bound quarks tests physicists’ understanding of the force that holds protons and neutrons together. The particles in a hadron are bound tightly together ...