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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After the beam shot through his skull and out just below his nose, Bugorski finished his day's work and went home for the ...

Nuclear scientists at the Large Hadron Collider recently made headlines by achieving what alchemists dreamed of for centuries (and what would give precious metals investors nightmares): turning lead i ...

For a trillionth of a second, lead became gold in CERN’s collider. The fleeting transformation may shape the future of ...

Scientists are unlocking new secrets of the universe with tiny particles called plasmons. These plasmons allow researchers to ...