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 ...

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

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.

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

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

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

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 ...

File this under: things that sound like science fiction but are 100% real. A researcher at the University of Colorado Denver ...

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 ...

They wouldn’t last for long, but the emissions from tiny black hole buds could light the way to quantum gravity.

The breakthrough was developed at CU Denver and rigorously tested at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, operated by ...

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