The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) can now chalk up one more use, alongside discovering the Higgs boson and other subatomic particles: heating French homes. With the new thermal recycling system ...
Seventeen miles of underground tunnel, thousands of superconducting magnets, and protons whipped to a fraction below light ...
In a cavernous tunnel beneath the French–Swiss border, physicists have briefly recreated conditions that existed microseconds ...
The water needed for cooling the Large Hadron Collider at CERN is now being used for heating: it supplies Ferney-Voltaire ...
Mark Thomson takes the reins at the CERN particle-physics lab, which recently received $1bn in private donations for its next collider project, as Michael Banks reports ...
The old fantasy of transforming lead into gold is now a reality, made possible by some wildly inefficient physics at the ...
Scientists at CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, have unveiled ambitious plans for a colossal new atom smasher, the Future Circular Collider (FCC). This proposed successor to the ...
As federal funding cuts impact decades of research, scientists could turn to black holes for cheaper, natural alternatives to expensive facilities searching for dark matter and similarly elusive ...
Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.