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 ...

The LHC Grid Fest, held last Friday at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, and at several sites around the world, commemorated the readiness of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG). At full capacity, the ...

CERN, or the European Organization for Nuclear Research, restarted its Large Hadron Collider after a regular winter stop for maintenance. CERN is not reactivating the accelerator in connection with ...

Physicists at the world’s largest atom collider have observed three new exotic particles as they continue to search for clues about the mysterious forces that bind subatomic particles together, they ...

The world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, is back in action after a three-year break for maintenance and an upgrade with more energy, higher intensity beams and greater ...

On Tuesday, July 5, at a giant underground compound in Meyrin, Switzerland, physicists announced that they had discovered three "exotic" particles, never before seen by science — a feat accomplished ...

The Large Hadron Collider is the world's biggest particle accelerator. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Large Hadron Collider ...

For the last two years, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (known as CERN), has been hibernating while scientists tinkered with and worked on upgrading ...

Alchemists eat your heart out. Researchers at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider achieved the once-impossible dream of alchemists by turning lead into gold — but only for a split second. The world’s largest ...

The grid that will process data from the Large Hadron Collider has undergone stress testing, with Cern and other organizations trying to gauge its limits. The tests, called Scale Testing for the ...

The world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator is about to turn back on. In December of 2018, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland, shut down so that ...

The big picture: The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) hosts one of the most ambitious engineering and scientific endeavors ever undertaken by humans. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) ...