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 ...

Using the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, scientists have found that the quark-gluon ...

New director-general Mark Thomson discusses fundraising efforts and future priorities for Europe’s particle-physics ...

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

Mark Thomson, the new head of Europe's physics laboratory CERN, voiced confidence Tuesday about raising the billions of dollars needed to build by far the world's biggest particle accelerator.- 'Giant ...

Behind the world’s most powerful particle collider, CERN physicists guard secrets that could change how we see reality. These ...

The old fantasy of transforming lead into gold is now a reality, made possible by some wildly inefficient physics at the ...

For the first time, researchers using the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, have tested a novel approach to search for signs of ...

CERN holds a lot of secrets, here are a few I learned during my exploration of this mothership of particle physics. Remember ...

March 30 (Reuters) - The European Organisation for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, is the world's largest particle physics laboratory. Following is a brief history of CERN and its advances in ...

An obscure theory of elementary particles proved to be key to China’s re-emergence as a scientific nation after the Cultural ...