The next head of Europe's CERN physics laboratory said Thursday that he favored moving forward with plans for a giant particle collider far more powerful than the collider that discovered the famous ...

A supercollider may one day help us predict the fate of the Universe. Scientists will use it to find a hidden instability ...

Below the snow-covered peaks of the Andes Mountains, among scattered rocks and the scrub of prairie bushes, there sits at this very moment a 12-ton polyethylene tank holding 3,000 gallons of pure ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Our planet is under a constant bombardment of radiation—from space. Well, maybe it’s not as scary as that makes it seem.

I was immersed in learning that Lady Gaga doesn't care that Madonna doesn't like her when I had this thought: "Physics doesn't seem that interesting anymore." No sooner had this vexing notion entered ...

LONDON — Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the so-called “God particle” that helped explain how matter formed after the Big Bang, has died at age 94, the ...