The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) gets a breath of fresh air as it collides beams of protons and oxygen ions for the very first ...

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

Far lighter than other ions collided at the LHC, oxygen (and neon) could tell us about conditions in the early universe.

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

The Large Hadron Collider is one of the biggest experiments in history, but it’s also one of the hardest to interpret. Unlike ...

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

The LHCb experiment has taken a leap in precision physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In a new paper submitted to Physical Review Letters and currently available on the arXiv preprint ...

There's nothing to get a scientist's heart pumping like a good, old-fashioned statistical debate. When it comes to topics ...

The findings suggest black holes could provide a cheaper, natural alternative to billion-dollar particle colliders, if we can figure out how to harness them.

Smashing atomic nuclei together at mind-bending speeds recreates the fiery conditions of the early universe and scientists ...

A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have formed ...

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