The world's largest particle collider produces roughly 89,000 gold nuclei every second, all from smashing lead atoms together ...

Physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have revealed, for the first time, the direct measurement of lead being ...

But while the LHC has proven a success when it comes to the Higgs, whose existence was confirmed by CERN scientists in 2012, the atom smasher has also been a failure when it comes to new particles.

GENEVA (AP) — Top minds at the world's largest atom smasher have released a blueprint for a much bigger successor that could vastly improve research into the remaining enigmas of physics.