Scientists in Geneva cheered early Tuesday after the Large Hadron Collider started making subatomic particles collide head-on at energies far greater than have ever been achieved before. The $10 ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. GENEVA (AP) -- Scientists switched on the world's largest atom smasher Friday night for the first time since the $10 billion machine suffered a ...

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A few weeks ago, the LHC stopped colliding protons and started to slam lead ions together. The resulting collisions create a quark-gluon plasma that hasn't been common since a fraction of a second ...

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC)--the world's largest, most ambitious atom smasher--hardly needs to be oversold. But even before construction ceased on the $10 billion, 17-mile-long, underground ...

Scientists running the Large Hadron Collider, aka the "big bang machine", announced Friday they've discovered a brand new particle during one of their experiments. The discovery's announcement first ...

Is it a giant quilt, or a children's playground? It may look like a precarious ladder and a fun slide, but not 'just anyone' can enter this place. This structure, boasting geometric forms and vibrant ...

GENEVA (AP) — Scientists switched on the world's largest atom smasher Friday night for the first time since the $10 billion machine suffered a spectacular failure more than a year ago. It took a year ...