Four astronauts set off for the Moon on the Artemis II mission on 2 April. They are carrying Timepix chip chips developped at CERN in their ...

Freedom of the Seas. GPS. The Large Hadron Collider. These are all public goods that make our world more prosperous, accurate ...

Mark Thomson is the newly appointed director general of CERN near Geneva, Switzerland. CERN is the world’s biggest particle ...

Early tests of the superconducting karts showed noticeable speed boosts. (Image: CERN) Following on from the robotic mice, ...

The muon collider was once dismissed as impossible, but is now gaining steam as the successor to the Large Hadron Collider.

Apparently, cows know how to scratch an itch -- with a broom. This fascinating new discovery provides the first known example of multipurpose tool use beyond chimpanzees. It required finding just the ...

A new method using light-nucleus strikes allows physicists to probe atomic structures with unprecedented precision.

An underwater observatory recently detected a startlingly energetic cosmic neutrino. One possible cause involves a phenomenon ...

Failure is a necessity in scientific research. Specifically, intelligent failures, where null results continuously redefine the limits of our understanding as we explore the unknown.” ...

The new baryon “Xi-cc-plus” decays into other particles almost instantly, but its existence could be important for ...

Particle accelerators reveal the heart of nuclear matter by smashing together atoms at close to the speed of light. The ...

Dark matter is some kind of substance that has gravity—it holds galaxies together—yet cannot be directly seen with any ...