Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Close up of a tunnel inside the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. - Richard Juilliart/Shutterstock Planned to be the largest particle ...

Once a surprise to physicists, these particles are useful tools inside and outside the realm of particle physics.

Particle accelerators are usually huge structures—think of the 3.2-km-long SLAC National Accelerator Lab in Stanford, California. But scientists have been hard at work trying to shrink these ...

Planned to be the largest particle accelerator in the world, China's Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC) was meant to be about 100 kilometers or 62 miles long. That's much bigger than CERN's ...

WHETHER you prefer your spaghetti al dente or soothingly soft, it can be difficult to achieve perfection at home. Many of us will have experienced our pasta disintegrating into a beige mush — ...

In 1929, Ernest Orlando Lawrence invented the cyclotron: a compact, efficient particle accelerator that used magnets. Two ...

Watch a nuclear engineer react to Lightning Bottle from a Particle Accelerator by Electron Impressions. This video dives into high-voltage physics, particle behavior, and the science behind safely ...

You’ve probably seen Lichtenberg figures before, those lightning-like traces left by high-voltage discharge. The safe way to create them is using an electron beam to embed charge inside an acrylic ...

In high-intensity laser–matter interactions, including laser-induced particle acceleration, physicists generally want to work ...

For centuries, the principle of symmetry has guided physicists towards more fundamental truths, but now a slew of shocking ...

As of 1 January 2026, Raimond Snellings will join the CERN Council as a representative of the Netherlands. The Council is the highest decision-making body of the world’s largest particle physics ...

The most direct probe of λ3 comes from Higgs-boson pair production (HH). HH production happens most often by the fusion of ...