Researchers at IPhT (CEA, CNRS) and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona have shown that gravity—and with it, ...

Scientists have used CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to uncover what they say is an entirely new type of particle, dubbed ...

The muon collider was once dismissed as impossible, but is now gaining steam as the successor to the Large Hadron Collider.

A beam of electrons crossed just a few millimeters of plasma, then helped trigger an effect that usually belongs to massive ...

In CERN’s high-temperature superconducting laboratory near Geneva, a wiring machine combines dozens of strands of niobium–tin ...

The particles that are in an atom: protons, neutrons and electrons The particles that are in protons and neutrons: quarks The four fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetism, the strong force and ...

A team affiliated with IPhT (CEA/CNRS) in France and the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona argues that, within a standard ...

The Large Hadron Collider has discovered a new particle, the 80th identified so far by the world's most powerful particle ...

Particle accelerators reveal the heart of nuclear matter by smashing together atoms at close to the speed of light. The ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A powerful new particle accelerator that could be set up at Fermilab, a telescope to observe the oldest light in the universe, and research to learn more about mysteries such as dark ...

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