Every time two beams of particles collide inside an accelerator, the universe lets us in on a little secret. Sometimes it's a particle no one has ever seen. Other times, it's a fleeting glimpse of ...

What do shooting stars and astronaut safety have in common? Tiny, sub-microscopic rock fragments found throughout the solar system, sometimes called interplanetary dust. When these particles collide ...

Far beyond the orbits of the planets are the hazy outlines of the heliosphere, the magnetic bubble in space that we call home. This flexible cosmic bubble stretches and shrinks in response to the ...

Deep beneath the serene landscape straddling the border of France and Switzerland, a marvel of modern science and engineering lies in wait. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, a massive particle ...

Can "snow" fall in the ocean and influence the climate of the entire planet? It turns out that it can. Research conducted by scientists from the Faculty of Physics at University of Warsaw, published ...

Scientists study rare, one-in-a-trillion heavy boson collisions happening inside the LHC. The Large Hadron Collider is the world’s most powerful particle accelerator. It accelerates and smashes ...

At every moment, subatomic particles stream in unfathomable numbers through your body. Each second, about 100 billion neutrinos from the sun pass through your thumbnail, and you’re bathed in a rain of ...

Empty space, despite how we think of it, may not be as empty as we assume. Although we cannot detect the virtual particles present in empty space, their presence is necessary to predict, ...

What happens when atoms collide at the speed of light? People get really stupid. Cringely takes on the Large Hadron Collider and its torch holding, pitchfork wielding critics. I don’t know about you, ...