The custom-designed chips will be used in the ATLAS detector to measure up to 1.5 billion particle collisions per second. These chips are essential because the LHC’s high-energy particle collisions ...

Time travel has long been a subject of fascination in science fiction, but recent scientific endeavors suggest that it might ...

Artists Juan Sorrentino and Céline Manz will jointly complete a dual residency at CERN and the Pierre Auger Observatory as the artists selected for ...

CERN nerds were able to briefly convert lead into gold through a near-miss protocol that converted the base metal into nuclei of the precious metal, the lab reported.

The first antimatter qubit will help search for differences between matter and antimatter ...

CERN gears up to ship antimatter across Europe A portable containment device that can be dropped on a truck.

CERN Director-General Fabiola Gianotti said the future collider “could become the most extraordinary instrument ever built by humanity to study the constituents and the laws of nature at the ...

As CERN, home to the world's largest particle accelerator, turns 70, scientists reflect on its achievements.

EDITORIAL 24 March 2025 What CERN does next matters for science and for international cooperation The world’s largest particle-physics laboratory is approaching a pivotal moment in its history.

Medieval alchemists toiled unsuccessfully to change lead into gold, but physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland had better luck – though for only a microsecond. Instead of alchemy ...