It’s difficult to overstate just how much the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has helped advance our understanding of the universe. Since its debut in 2008, the 16.7-mile-wide subatomic smasher buried ...

The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest atom smasher, has shut down for a planned 4-year upgrade that will make it 10 times more sensitive than its initial version.

CERN is the world leader of the exploration of particle physics, thanks to its 27-kilometer atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider. Now, the Swiss-based research facility has officially completed the ...

Scientists at CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, have unveiled ambitious plans for a colossal new atom smasher, the Future Circular Collider (FCC). This proposed successor to the ...

MEYRIN, Switzerland - The most powerful atom-smasher ever built could make some bizarre discoveries, such as invisible matter or extra dimensions in space, after it is switched on in August. But some ...

In the suburbs of Geneva, the future of humanity’s unending journey into the world of particle physics is being planned. The Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (translation: European ...