Mark Thomson has taken the reins at CERN just as particle physics confronts some of its deepest unknowns – and faces hard ...

The 28th Chamonix Workshop took place from 2 to 5 February 2026, with around 130 participants from CERN and several ...

Following a two-year shutdown for maintenance and upgrades, Ned Stafford looks at how the LHC has been improved to allow researchers to hunt for new particles Power boost The upgrade and maintenance ...

Scientists in Switzerland have begun the cooldown of a 312-foot-long test stand for the HiLumi upgrade of the world’s largest and most powerful particle collider, the LHC, to ensure the upgraded ...

Physicists know that their elegant theoretical description of forces and particles — the standard model of particle physics — ...

The CERN Council has designated the Future Circular Collider (FCC-ee) as the preferred successor project to the LHC. A final ...

The future circular collider at CERN, intended to probe the properties of the Higgs boson in 20 years' time, excites ...

In November, Quanta magazine published a feature on the detection of “magic” top quarks at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC). This magic, they explained, is part of an interesting shift happening at ...

A novel beam diagnostic instrument developed by researchers in the University of Liverpool's QUASAR Group has been approved for use in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's most powerful ...