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

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

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

Nearly 50 years ago, physicists floated a bold idea: our universe might be stuck in a false vacuum. This state feels stable, but deep down, it's not. Over enormous timescales, it could suddenly tip ...

What happens when the smallest building blocks of matter refuse to play by the rules of traditional physics? For decades, ...

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

The world’s largest atom smasher has conducted its first-ever collisions between protons and oxygen ions, as part of an ...

Iris van Herpen has an on-going collaboration with CERN. The Dutch fashion designer’s latest project, with photographer Nick ...

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

In a few days, we will reach the mathematical halfway point in the year. Every team in the league will have played 81 games, ...

Each Axiom-4 astronaut brings unique expertise, from long-duration spaceflight to cutting-edge engineering, forging ambitious ...