Iris Van Herpen’s fall couture collection involved out-there materials that even science is still grappling with — plasma, the mysterious matter responsible for aurora borealis, and also lightning.

Buried deep underground, this extraordinary machine has already transformed humanity's understanding of the universe.

The world's largest particle accelerator is about to take a long break. After years of smashing protons together, the Large ...

On June 29, after almost 18 years, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN was shut down in its current iteration for the ...

The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest atom smasher, has shut down for a planned 4-year upgrade that will make it 10 ...

The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest atom smasher, has shut down for a planned 4-year upgrade that will make it 10 ...

Over that period, the LHC will undergo a major upgrade and will be turned into a new scientific installation, High-Luminosity LHC ...

Raymond Davis Jr. is dwarfed by the giant tank used by the Homestake detector in South Dakota, which first detected solar ...

Ever since Einstein: nothing is faster than light. In 2011, an experiment at CERN seemed to prove the opposite - until the supposed breakthrough turned out to be a massive mistake.

The dream of medieval alchemists is coming true in the 21st century: scientists at the Cern nuclear research center have ...

The detection system along with associated hardware for electronic conditioning and control (core system depicted below). Physicists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and other institutes ...

When Mark Thomson was 13, he read a book about the European Organization for Nuclear Research, better known as CERN, a particle physics lab whose remit was to interrogate the fabric of reality. The ...