Look alive, science fans — a new subatomic particle has just dropped after a 20-year search. Discovered by British ...

A Naperville student with dreams of working on the frontier of physics took a step that is "an entirely new level of cool" toward such a career this summer. Naperville North High School graduate Cari ...

An international collaboration of scientists today sent the first beam of protons zooming at nearly the speed of light around the world's most powerful particle accelerator -- the Large Hadron ...

A technician works in the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) tunnel of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, during a 2016 press visit in Meyrin, near Geneva, Switzerland. (Laurent ...

Taking the helm: Fabiola Gianotti is CERN's new DG. (Courtesy: CERN/Maximilien Brice) This is a month of change at the CERN particle-physics lab near Geneva with the Italian physicist and former ATLAS ...

Essay: James Gillies CERN strategy group CERN, the laboratory, has its home outside Geneva, Switzerland, but CERN, the organization, is a much broader collaboration, involving all of Europe. The ...

The next head of Europe's CERN physics laboratory said Thursday that he favoured moving forward with plans for a giant particle collider far more powerful than the collider that discovered the famous ...

A 12-day trip in February by 20 Bentley Upper School students to Switzerland and CERN, the largest physics laboratory in the world, was an experiment yielding remarkable results. Aimed with the ...