The Large Hadron Collider has led to groundbreaking discoveries, but scientists are now focused on an even larger project—a 91-kilometer ring buried beneath the Swiss-French countryside. This ...

RHIC’s 25th year of operations is set to be its last—but only because something new is on the horizon: the Electron-Ion Collider [EIC], which scientists hope can reveal the secrets of the ...

The nine Boston University professors involved in the Large Hadron Collider – the world’s largest particle accelerator – said they are looking forward to understanding some of the universe’s most ...

Scientists may have discovered the most powerful particle colliders in the universe — and they're strewn throughout our galaxy just waiting to blow.

The dream of seventeenth-century alchemists has been realized by physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), who have turned lead into gold — albeit for only a fraction of a second and at ...

Currently, the most powerful particle accelerator on Earth is the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), but since it was used to discover the Higgs Boson in 2012, it has failed to deliver evidence of ...

The Most Powerful Particle Collider in the Universe? Paul Sutter Live Science May 26, 2025 NASA, STScI ... Supernovas can become some of the most powerful particle colliders in the universe — but only ...

LHC experiments don’t create large gold nuggets — but some particles in a beam of lead ions can turn into gold for about one microsecond. Credit: Zen Rial/Getty ...

GENEVA — The world's largest particle collider passed its first major tests by firing two beams of protons in opposite directions around a 17-mile underground ring Wednesday in what scientists ...

The world's largest particle collider produces roughly 89,000 gold nuclei every second, all from smashing lead atoms together at near-light-speed. Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu ...