Cosmic rays are extremely fast, charged particles that travel through space at nearly the speed of light. The Amaterasu ...

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The world’s largest particle accelerator has been supplying heat to thousands of homes in ...

The idea that empty space is truly empty has been quietly dying for decades, but new measurements of particle spin are now forcing the issue. By tracking how tiny fragments of matter emerge with ...

Spin correlations within a particle collider may help crack one of the biggest mysteries known, said physicist Zhoudunming Tu.

Mark Thomson, the new head of Europe's physics laboratory CERN, voiced confidence Tuesday about raising the billions of dollars needed to build by far the world's biggest particle accelerator.

Mark Thomson takes the reins at the CERN particle-physics lab, which recently received $1bn in private donations for its next collider project, as Michael Banks reports ...

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

Using the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, scientists have found that the quark-gluon ...

In 2023, a subatomic particle smashed into the Mediterranean Sea with enough energy to rattle the foundations of physics. The ...

Scientists have found new evidence that a pattern of “flow” observed in particles streaming ...

The old fantasy of transforming lead into gold is now a reality, made possible by some wildly inefficient physics at the ...