In physics, there are two great pillars of thought that don't quite fit together. The Standard Model of particle physics describes all known ...

Filmed to mark CERN’s seventieth anniversary, The Peace Particle combines poetry, music and rare archival footage, alongside special access to the Large Hadron Collider, to reveal how CERN was born ...

A Waterlooville company has helped provide parts to the Large Hadron Collider in what the owners have described as a proud moment.

The discovery itself is simple and fundamental, but the applications stretch far and wide into astrophysics and quantum ...

Almost a thousand of the world’s top space scientists will visit Durham University next week (7 to 11 July) as we host the UK’s National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) 2025. NAM is the flagship annual event ...

John Peoples was asked in the mid-1990s about the value of doing pure scientific research — that which has no predetermined benefit. “Knowledge is a form of wealth,” he replied. “It is an ...

A distant cluster of galaxies is wrapped in a vast halo of high-energy particles that could be the work of supermassive black ...

A festinating new theory shifts focus from space to time, arguing the clock-ticking we take for granted is richer and weirder ...

Conventional accelerators use oscillating electric fields to drive charged particles to relativistic speeds. The Large Hadron ...

Scientists are trying to solve a decade-long mystery by determining the identity of anomalous signals detected from below ice ...

On June 11, the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine announced the result of a three-year study to set a ...