Particle and nuclear physics evokes evokes images of huge accelerators probing the extremes of matter. But in this round-up ...

Xavier Niel, the French tech billionaire, and John Elkann, the chairperson of Ferrari, have also pledged money to the project ...

CERN has installed two cold boxes at the ATLAS and CMS sites, a major milestone for the High-Luminosity LHC upgrade.

At the heart of every atomic nucleus, the strong interaction quietly dictates the structure of matter, yet for decades one of ...

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.

Beneath the Swiss countryside, physicists at CERN probe the universe’s deepest mysteries. From hidden particles to parallel ...

CERN, the world’s largest atom smasher, says it has observed three new "exotic particles" while carrying out its third run of collisions. After a three-year pause for maintenance and routine checks, ...

Physicists at the world’s largest atom collider have observed three new exotic particles as they continue to search for clues about the mysterious forces that bind subatomic particles together, they ...

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

CERN looks set to accept private donations for the first time to support the successor to the Large Hadron Collider.

The European Laboratory for Elementary Particle Physics is one of the world's leading scientific institutions. Securing it ...

A May 15 post on X, formerly Twitter, (direct link, archive link) shows a video of scantily-clad people dancing and writhing on a stage before a person in a goat-headed costume comes out shouting.