In a new Nature Physics study, researchers accelerated electrons to more than twice the energy predicted by the traditional ...

When you think of a particle accelerator, you usually think of some giant cyclotron with heavy-duty equipment in a massive mad-science lab. But scientists now believe they can create particle ...

The famous particle accelerator has gone silent, but its next chapter could usher in a new era of particle physics.

Deep beneath the border of France and Switzerland is the most massive, most ambitious experiment ever undertaken by humanity. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a particle accelerator that uses a ...

CERN shuts down the Large Hadron Collider for four years to prepare a major upgrade that could transform particle physics.

A particle accelerator that produces intense X-rays could be squeezed into a device that fits on a table, my colleagues and I have found in a new research project. The way that intense X-rays are ...

Experimental physics rarely tops the news agenda, but the 2008 launch of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) catapulted academic theories such as the search for the Higgs boson – also known as the “God ...

Within the constellation Aquila in the northern skies, a powerful cosmic accelerator has been pumping out fast-moving ...

In 2010, when scientists were preparing to smash the first particles together within the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), sections of the media fantasised that the EU-wide experiment might create a black ...

China’s Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) has identified the most powerful particle ...

If you could peer into a particle physicist’s daydream, you might spy a vision of a giant lunar particle accelerator. Now, researchers have calculated what such an enormous, hypothetical machine could ...