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.

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

Mark Thomson takes the reins at the CERN particle-physics lab, which recently received $1bn in private donations for its next ...

In a historic first for the laboratory, CERN has received $1 billion in private ...

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

The European Strategy Group tasked a working group to compare seven proposals for CERN’s next large-scale collider.

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

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

This is what the creation of a Higgs Boson looks like to the Large Hadron Collider. (Credit: CERN) The Higgs boson is, if ...

CERN's ALICE collaboration reveals how fragile deuterons survive high-energy collisions, impacting models of cosmic rays and ...

Türkiye has been an associate member state of CERN since 2015 and takes part in major experiments such as ATLAS and CMS, ...

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