The LHC will enter a four-year “intensive work period” to “transform the LHC into the [High-Luminosity] LHC,” according to ...
Deep beneath the border of France and Switzerland lies the Large Hadron Collider, the most complex machine on Earth. This ...
It's the second most energetic cosmic ray ever to be detected striking Earth.
Before the RHIC shut down, it was the only operational particle collider in the U.S. and one of two heavy-ion colliders in the world, the other being the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland.
A new theory suggests the universe’s greatest secrets are hiding in a “zeptouniverse” that’s ready to be explored—without ...
Officials at Brookhaven National Laboratory pushed the button on the final smash up in its $2 billion Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider in Upton Friday, marking a quarter century of ground-breaking ...
I peeked in on the house-sized particle detector known as STAR just after it took its last-ever snapshot of one of the most extreme types of fireball ever created. Inside, the conditions just after ...
The expolision of a black hole could explain the origins of a mysterious high-energy neutrino detected in 2023, as well as shedding more light on the mystery of dark matter in the process. In 2023, a ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Credit: Maximilien Brice/CERN/Wikimedia Commons) The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) can now chalk up one more use, alongside ...
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The science we know today is different from the alchemy that infatuated scholars in the past, but the underlying drive to learn more about the world remains the same. While today's scientists spend ...
Alchemy has been around since ancient times, when people believed that they could turn base metals into gold. While this was, of course, nonsense and alchemy has long been seen as pseudoscience, ...