Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Close up of a tunnel inside the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. - Richard Juilliart/Shutterstock Planned to be the largest particle ...

Planned to be the largest particle accelerator in the world, China's Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC) was meant to be about 100 kilometers or 62 miles long. That's much bigger than CERN's ...

The Large Hadron Collider is going to be shut down — not permanently, but for a pretty long time — and the famous atom smasher’s eventual final retirement is also something that top scientists are now ...

You’ve probably seen Lichtenberg figures before, those lightning-like traces left by high-voltage discharge. The safe way to create them is using an electron beam to embed charge inside an acrylic ...

A particle accelerator is not some kind of evil super villain torture device. A particle accelerator is used for health, safety, discovery, and for learning more about our universe. You can't see what ...

Europe's physics lab CERN on Thursday said private donors had pledged $1 billion towards the construction of a new particle accelerator that would be by far the world's biggest. In a first, private ...

The Future Circular Collider would stretch 91 kilometres across at an average depth of 200 metres CERN chief Fabiola Gianotti said the FCC would allow 'major steps forward in our understanding of ...