Researchers look to the future of Canadian contributions to international high-energy particle physics, building on past ...

A philosopher has put forward an argument for rethinking how particles are defined within the standard model of particle ...

The High-Luminosity LHC, planned to switch on in 2030, could help physicists unravel mysteries about the Higgs boson, dark ...

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

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

For decades, physicists searched for a missing piece of nature's puzzle, an elusive particle believed to explain why matter has mass. Nicknamed the "God particle", the Higgs boson became one of the ...

A viral theory suggests a link between the Large Hadron Collider's shutdowns and significant political events, including ...

The world's largest particle accelerator has powered down. CERN has switched off the Large Hadron Collider to begin Long ...

The world's largest scientific machine—the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN—has shut down after completing a landmark ...

Cern has switched off the Large Hadron Collider for a four-year shutdown and overhaul. The work will prepare the machine for its High-Luminosity phase and a major rise in data collection.

As the Large Hadron Collider switches off its beams for a four-year overhaul, the question is no longer what it has found but whether anything bigger is worth building ...