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

Nearly 50 years ago, physicists floated a bold idea: our universe might be stuck in a false vacuum. This state feels stable, ...

Almost a thousand of the world’s top space scientists will visit Durham University next week (7 to 11 July) as we host the UK’s National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) 2025. NAM is the flagship annual event ...

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

Iris van Herpen has an on-going collaboration with CERN. The Dutch fashion designer’s latest project, with photographer Nick ...

Students from The University of Manchester’s Physics Society have constructed a remarkable 30,500-piece Lego model of the ...

Nearly a decade ago, a detector searching for ghostly cosmic particles found two anomalous signals in Antarctic ice. But ...

The LHCb experiment has taken a leap in precision physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In a new paper submitted to Physical Review Letters and currently available on the arXiv preprint ...

The Future Circular Collider would have a diameter of over 56 miles, compared to the Large Hadron Collider’s 17-mile diameter. Credit: CERN ...

In its quest for these particles, which have a magnetic charge and are predicted by several theories that extend the Standard Model, the MoEDAL collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has ...

New Large Hadron Collider results While the result was tantalizing, it wasn’t conclusive. All measurements come with a certain degree of uncertainty or “error”.