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World's largest atom smasher turned lead into gold — and then destroyed it in an instantThe world's largest particle collider produces roughly 89,000 gold nuclei every second, all from smashing lead atoms together at near-light-speed.
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'Beauty' particle discovered at world's largest atom smasher could unlock new physicsWhy matter dominates over antimatter in our universe has long been a major cosmic mystery to physicists. A new finding by the world's largest particle collider has revealed a clue.
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Elusive neutrinos' mass just got halved — and it could mean physicists are close to solving a major cosmic mysteryPhysicists have set a new upper limit on the mass of neutrinos. And the finding could poke a big hole in the Standard Model of particle physics.
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The world's largest atom smasher is getting a powerful new upgradePhysicists are finalizing plans for MATHUSLA, a powerful new addition to CERN's Large Hadron Collider that will detect long-lived particles and potentially open the door to new physics.
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'Spooky' quantum entanglement discovered inside individual protons for 1st time everPhysicists have long-suspected that the building blocks of protons experienced quantum entanglement. Now, researchers have the first direct evidence — after using a trick to infer subatomic particles' entropy.
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'The Majoron' — a bizarre particle that's its own opposite — could explain the biggest mysteries of the universe, scientists claimThere's a significant imbalance between matter and antimatter in our universe, but a strange particle called "the Majoron" could finally explain it, an audacious new study suggests.
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800-mile-long 'DUNE' experiment could reveal the hidden dimensions of the universeA new underground facility called DUNE, which will accelerate particles for 800 miles between Illinois and South Dakota, could reveal the hidden dimensions of the universe, new research suggests.
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Large Hadron Collider finds 1st evidence of the heaviest antimatter particle yetScientists at CERN's ALICE detector are replicating conditions found during the Big Bang, attempting to get to the bottom of how matter came to dominate over antimatter.
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Is light a particle or a wave?Does light behave more like a particle, or like a wave? Today we know the surprising answer. Here's why it took so long to get there.
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