The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest particle accelerator located beneath the Franco-Swiss border, celebrates ...

It might not be the legendary Higgs boson, but scientists at the world's largest particle accelerator have just discovered something else very interesting indeed. While on the hunt for the ...

Physicists love the Higgs boson, but they hate the God particle. The elusive Higgs particle, which scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator announced Tuesday (Dec. 13) that ...

Since inaugural operations began in 2008, the LHC has allowed researchers to probe some of the universe’s most profound and mysterious forces. But investigating the deepest questions of modern physics ...

A half-century scientific quest culminated early Wednesday as physicists announced the discovery of a new subatomic particle -- one theorized to be so fundamental that without it, nothing could exist.

Back in the late 1990s, when I was still struggling to make my love of computers educationally official, I found myself in particular awe of a mysterious program that appeared in the Comp Sci lab one ...

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. CERN, ...

On July 4, 2012, at the CERN laboratory in Geneva – home to the massive particle accelerator known as the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC – two groups of physicists announced the discovery of a new ...