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.

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

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 ...

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

Over that period, the LHC will undergo a major upgrade and will be turned into a new scientific installation, High-Luminosity LHC ...

Raymond Davis Jr. is dwarfed by the giant tank used by the Homestake detector in South Dakota, which first detected solar ...

The dream of medieval alchemists is coming true in the 21st century: scientists at the Cern nuclear research center have ...

The mysterious Amaterasu particle may not be a proton at all. New research suggests that some of the most extreme cosmic rays could be ultraheavy atomic nuclei, heavier than iron, which are better ...

When Mark Thomson was 13, he read a book about the European Organization for Nuclear Research, better known as CERN, a particle physics lab whose remit was to interrogate the fabric of reality. The ...

"We have never observed such a high-energy neutrino before, and if it turns out to come from cosmic accelerators like blazars, it would give us new insight into how these objects can emit particles at ...