Supermassive black holes might secretly be smashing particles at energies beyond our best labs, offering a new path to discover dark matter without building a giant collider.

Neutrino oscillation is weird, but it may be weird in a useful way, because it might allow physicists to probe certain fundamental symmetries in nature—and these in turn may illuminate the most ...

Medieval alchemy dreamed of transforming metals into gold. Today, modern science has accomplished this feat, but at what price? Medieval alchemists desperately sought to create gold from ...

Scientists have long sought evidence to refute string theory, but a new test seeks to disprove key aspects with help from the ...

A groundbreaking quantum device small enough to fit in your hand could one day answer one of the biggest questions in science ...

An event at CERN’s IdeaSquare held on 8 August demonstrated how citizen science and novel artificial intelligence (AI) techniques developed at the Large Hadron Collider can contribute to combating ...

Sioni Summers from Edge SpAIce and Paola Catapano from Polarquest Association speaking at the event (Image: CERN)An event at CERN's IdeaSquare held on ...

The custom-designed chips will be used in the ATLAS detector to measure up to 1.5 billion particle collisions per second.

Then there’s the radiation Those collisions produce an enormous amount of data, but that’s only part of the challenge. Th ...

AWAKE, a CERN experiment that explores how to make particle accelerators more compact, has become the first facility to pause operations for CERN’s third long shutdown (LS3). While most of CERN’s ...

Nuclear physicists working at the Large Hadron Collider recently made headlines by achieving the centuries-old dream of alchemists (and nightmare of ...

At the Large Hadron Collider, scientists from the University of Kansas achieved a fleeting form of modern-day alchemy — turning lead into gold for just a fraction of a second. Using ultra-peripheral ...