The world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, is back in action after a three-year break for maintenance and an upgrade with more energy, higher intensity beams and greater ...

Plans for a 91-kilometre European particle accelerator are facing a serious challenge after the German government said that the project was unaffordable. CERN, the European particle-physics laboratory ...

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, ...

Europe is pushing forwards with plans to build a 91-kilometre-long, 15-billion-Swiss-franc (US$17-billion) supercollider underneath the French and Swiss countryside. The machine would allow ...

Scientists are preparing to reboot the largest and most powerful particle accelerator in the world this week, seeking to use it to solve the mystery of dark matter. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) ...

In some ways, a wormhole might look like a black hole. And the wormhole would look like a sphere, not a hole. Einstein's theory of general relativity allows for the possibility of wormholes, but there ...