Seventeen miles of underground tunnel, thousands of superconducting magnets, and protons whipped to a fraction below light ...

Physicists at the world's largest particle accelerator have made a first-of-its-kind discovery about antimatter that could help solve one of the universe's biggest mysteries. The discovery — made at ...

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

Physicists from the ATLAS collaboration at the European Organization for Nuclear Research — including members of Penn’s ATLAS group — have been awarded the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in fundamental ...

One of the world's most sophisticated scientific facilities is turning to ultra-low temperatures to try and unravel hidden secrets of our Universe.

After nearly 15 years of planning and construction, the world’s most powerful particle accelerator — the Large Hadron Collider — successfully completed its first experiment last Wednesday. Amidst a ...

This Is a Big Deal! exclaims Geoff Brumfiel at Nature: "I can't think of another case where the future of an entire field hinges on the success of a single experiment...It could verify current ...

Join me as I explore CERN, home to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located 100m beneath Geneva, Switzerland. The LHC ...