After decades of debate, the scientific case is clear for Europe’s Future Circular Collider, a colossal successor to the ...

The Large Hadron Collider has led to groundbreaking discoveries, but scientists are focusing on a new project—an expansive 91-kilometer ring beneath the Swiss-French countryside. This $17 billion ...

High-Luminosity LHC upgrade work has begun at CERN after the Large Hadron Collider logged its final collision on June 27, 2026, entering a four-year, $1.5 billion Long Shutdown 3 program to replace 1.

When I arrived at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in the prairie suburbs west of Chicago to begin my ...

Norbert Holtkamp is a physicist and science administrator who has served as director of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) since January 2026. He previously held senior leadership ...

The mysterious Amaterasu particle may not be a proton at all. New research suggests that some of the most extreme cosmic rays could be ultraheavy atomic nuclei, heavier than iron, which are better ...

Every time I write about particle physics, I encounter a moment of uncertainty about a quantity that, at first glance, ought to be clear. How many kinds of elementary particles should I say there are?

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CERN's large hadron collider is responsible for discovering the Higgs boson particle in 2012, which confirmed a hypothesis ...

The world's most powerful particle accelerator will shutter operations Monday for four years of renovations to dramatically ...

Yale University researchers are building components for detectors based on the Deep Underground Neutrino ...