19 July 2023
A new type of particle called the strange pentaquark has been found using the Large Hadron Collider. The particle could help researchers catalogue the states of exotic matter and figure out how fundamental particles stick together
25 March 2023
A 2022 measurement of the mass of the W boson threatened to upend particle physics as we know it, but new results from CERN indicate the standard model was right all along
24 March 2021
The LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider has seen "tantalising hints" of physics beyond our standard understanding of the universe, but will the results stand up?
25 March 2020
The world we live in is overwhelmingly made up of particles of matter. But many of these particles have an antimatter equivalent: a particle identical in every respect, but with an opposite charge.
12 February 2020
When CERN’s Proton Synchrotron switched on 60 years ago it ushered in a new era for particle physics
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
24 July 2019
Enormous particle colliders probe the nature of reality, but much smaller laser-powered plasma accelerators could soon render them obsolete
6 June 2019
The pentaquark, an elusive particle first spotted by the Large Hadron Collider in 2015, is made of two smaller particles stuck together in a sort of miniature molecule
13 February 2019
For almost a decade, the world's most expensive experiment failed to break new ground. But its biggest discoveries may have gone unnoticed
16 January 2019
Ambitious new theories dreamed up to explain reality have led us nowhere. Meet the hardcore physicists trying to think their way out of this black hole
