Using the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, scientists have found that the quark-gluon ...

A new heat exchange system between the LHC and the French town of Ferney-Voltaire is directing waste heat energy from CERN's accelerator to warm thousands of homes and businesses.

Scientists have found new evidence that a pattern of “flow” observed in particles streaming ...

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) can now chalk up one more use, alongside discovering the Higgs boson and other subatomic particles: heating French homes. With the new thermal recycling system ...

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

The world’s largest particle accelerator has been supplying heat to thousands of homes in ...

The water needed for cooling the Large Hadron Collider at CERN is now being used for heating: it supplies Ferney-Voltaire ...

Mark Thomson takes the reins at the CERN particle-physics lab, which recently received $1bn in private donations for its next collider project, as Michael Banks reports ...

The old fantasy of transforming lead into gold is now a reality, made possible by some wildly inefficient physics at the ...

Fulfilling the dream of medieval alchemists, physicists have observed the transmutation of lead into gold—through nuclear physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's most powerful particle ...

Mark Thomson, the new head of Europe's physics laboratory CERN, voiced confidence Tuesday about raising the billions of ...

Cost measures CERN is proposing the Future Circular Collider to study the Higgs boson in great detail, but can it afford the ...