The world's largest particle accelerator is about to take a long break. After years of smashing protons together, the Large ...

Iris Van Herpen’s fall couture collection involved out-there materials that even science is still grappling with — plasma, the mysterious matter responsible for aurora borealis, and also lightning.

Buried deep underground, this extraordinary machine has already transformed humanity's understanding of the universe.

Normally, the high-speed particles are considered a space hazard that satellite engineers and human exploration missions need ...

On June 29, after almost 18 years, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN was shut down in its current iteration for the ...

The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest atom smasher, has shut down for a planned 4-year upgrade that will make it 10 times more sensitive than its initial version.

The technology could be used to send probes across interstellar space to other star systems.

Scrolls from the Roman library of Herculaneum that were carbonised by a volcanic eruption have been read in their entirety ...

This Silicon Valley-backed venture is unraveling the mangled remains of scrolls ruined by the 79 C.E. eruption of Vesuvius that destroyed Herculaneum and Pompeii ...

Every time I write about particle physics, I encounter a moment of uncertainty about a quantity that, at first glance, ought to be clear. How many kinds of elementary particles should I say there are?