Far lighter than other ions collided at the LHC, oxygen (and neon) could tell us about conditions in the early universe.

Experts believe the universe may have a built-in 'self-destruct button' called false vacuum decay which could destroy the ...

Scientists from CERN have measured the speed of sound in the quark-gluon plasmas with record precision, a key step to ...

What happens when the smallest building blocks of matter refuse to play by the rules of traditional physics? For decades, ...

The Higgs boson, discovered at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2012, plays a central role in the Standard Model of particle physics, endowing elementary particles such as quarks with mass ...