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

New director-general Mark Thomson discusses fundraising efforts and future priorities for Europe’s particle-physics ...

For nearly ten years, thousands of artificial intelligence scientists and technologists across Europe have been calling for a “CERN for AI.” The idea provides a clear way to strengthen Europe’s ...

Cost measures CERN is proposing the Future Circular Collider to study the Higgs boson in great detail, but can it afford the $18bn price tag? (Courtesy: CERN/Polar Media) Last November I visited the ...

Join me as I explore CERN, home to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located 100m beneath Geneva, Switzerland. The LHC ...

GENEVA (AP) — The research center that is home to the world’s largest particle accelerator is celebrating its 70th anniversary on Tuesday, with the physicists who run it aiming to unlock secrets about ...

Deep beneath the serene landscape straddling the border of France and Switzerland, a marvel of modern science and engineering lies in wait. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, a massive particle ...

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 ...

CERN, or the European Organization for Nuclear Research, restarted its Large Hadron Collider after a regular winter stop for maintenance. CERN is not reactivating the accelerator in connection with ...

An April 1 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows a man telling viewers about his visit to the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, and what he thinks the organization will do ...