Tech Billionaires Pledge $1 Billion to CERN for Future Circular Collider
Tech billionaires have pledged as much as €860 million ($1 billion) to help fund CERN’s Future Circular Collider,…
Nanotube design could shrink particle accelerators to hair-thin size
New research suggests that particle accelerators capable of generating intense, coherent X-rays, which are typically produced only at…
Is China’s ‘God particle’ quest over? World’s largest collider project may be dropped
The quest to understand the “God particle” may have just hit a wall in China. An ambitious multibillion-dollar…
Scientists observe single top quark with W, Z bosons for first time
Researchers at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have detected a phenomenon that happens only every trillion proton collisions,…
Oxford team makes world’s first plasma ‘fireballs’ in CERN experiment
In a world first, plasma “fireballs” have been created in the lab setting using the Super Proton Synchrotron…
How quantum computing can revolutionise energy efficiency in AI
The AI boom is driving an explosive surge in computational demands and reshaping the landscape of technology, infrastructure, and innovation.…
A Physics Experiment Turned Lead Into Gold
The ALICE Collaboration is a winner of the 2025 Gizmodo Science Fair for transforming lead into gold for…
CERN and fusion energy, advancing together
CERN and Fusion for Energy (F4E) sign a major framework collaboration agreement to advance scientific research and technological…
Building blocks of our Universe: How scientists tamed the particle zoo | Technology News
By the mid-20th century, physics was in a strange state. New particle accelerators were spitting out discoveries almost…
Scientists trace rare nuclei ‘island’ where physics rules break apart
Researchers at CERN have made a great step forward in revealing how atomic nuclei behave after they mapped…