Scientists at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) say they are planning to build a new world’s biggest particle collider. They say a major stage of the feasibility study into the ...

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

For a while, in the Middle Ages, there was a real craze for trying to turn unassuming lead into pure, gleaming gold. Perhaps those ancient alchemists should have been building a particle collider.

Contrary to some hysterical warnings of doom, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) did not create a black hole and destroy Earth when it came online in 2008. Since then, the LHC has identified the Higgs ...

Last month, a group of researchers in the United States presented a rousing vision for the future of high-energy particle physics. The recommendations from the Particle Physics Project Prioritization ...

Scientists could turn to black holes to aid the search for dark matter and similarly elusive particles that hold clues to the universe’s deepest secrets, a new study by Oxford University physicists ...

On the Swiss–French border, at the headquarters of the European laboratory CERN, a battle is under way for the future of particle physics. CERN’s leaders want to build the biggest machine on the ...

WASHINGTON — A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine presents an ambitious and comprehensive long-term vision for the field of particle physics to further our ...