Mark Thomson, CERN's Director General designate for 2025, talks to the Courier about the future of particle physics.

By employing a new and improved supercollider, scientists are hoping to dissect the very fabric of the Universe and calculate ...

While it may not sound like a major leap, this approach offers one big advantage: killing cancerous cells while doing less damage to surrounding healthy tissue.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator, designed to explore fundamental questions in physics. A critical aspect of its operation is ...

The High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider, edited by Oliver Brüning and Lucio Rossi, provides a comprehensive review of an ...

A pioneering new treatment promises to tackle a wider range of cancers, with fewer side-effects than conventional ...

Magnetic monopoles are hypothetical particles that would carry magnetic charge, a concept first proposed by Paul Dirac in ...

Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider tested whether top quarks, the most massive known elementary particles, comply with ...

Hadron therapy is a state-of-the-art radiotherapy technique that uses proton or ion beams to target tumoral cells, while ...

Using a machine learning technique to analyse the decay products of the nuclei produced in these collisions, the ALICE team ...

Contemporary physics still wrestles with a question posed by philosophers millenia ago: What is the universe made of?