21 February 2023
A new breed of collider, called plasma wakefield accelerators, can study fundamental physics in new ways by doing something the Large Hadron Collider cannot do: colliding electrons
9 February 2022
Precision measurements have long suggested that particles called muons, closely related to the electron, are misbehaving. Now, it seems their shenanigans might be pointing to the presence of new particles
12 January 2022
Hints of a fifth force of nature may only interest researchers and science lovers for now, but physics breakthroughs have a habit of delivering technological leaps
2 September 2021
The physicists at CERN still rely on tape for the long-term storage of data from the LHC, because it is more reliable and cheaper than hard discs or flash storage
26 February 2020
Why is there something rather than nothing? We’re finally making enough antimatter to extract an answer – and it might reveal the dark side of the universe too
19 February 2020
A difference in the properties of matter and antimatter could help explain our universe – but a property called the Lamb shift is similar in particles of both
12 February 2020
When CERN’s Proton Synchrotron switched on 60 years ago it ushered in a new era for particle physics
27 November 2019
CERN physicist Jeffrey Hangst spends his days making antimatter. He explains why the world is safe in his hands – and why he plays in a band called Diracula
20 November 2019
The model of collaboration between scientists across national borders has proved its worth at the CERN particle physics lab. It would also work to fight climate change
20 November 2019
The particle physics discoveries have dried up but in politically uncertain times CERN's cooperative model is an example to the world, says its chief Fabiola Gianotti
