Scientists created a Mini Big Bang at CERN, recreating quark-gluon plasma believed to have filled the universe moments after the Big Bang.

On 20 August, the president of the Swiss Confederation and head of the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research (EAER), Guy Parmelin, welcomed CERN Director-General Mark Thomson ...

A University of Kansas physicist played a leading role in a CERN study showing that two rival explanations for how gluons behave inside atomic nuclei can now be experimentally distinguished.

Physicists believe the earliest form of matter in the universe—known as quark-gluon plasma—arrived in this brief blip in time ...

What happened in the first moments of the universe—before the building blocks of life and the world we know today came into existence? Physicists at the CERN research facility in Switzerland are ...

(ComicSans/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Every atom of matter in the Universe is built around a nucleus. It's a tightly packed bundle of protons and neutrons that makes up the atomic core, defines its ...

CERN and the EIC project are deepening their collaboration through technical expertise, shared research, and scientific ...

CERN’s ALICE experiment found that gluons behave differently at the smallest scales inside lead nuclei, favoring gluon ...

Deep inside atomic nuclei, gluons bind quarks together and help determine the structure of visible matter. A CERN study, with a University of Kansas physicist playing a leading role, has now shown ...

CERN shuts down the Large Hadron Collider for four years to prepare a major upgrade that could transform particle physics.

At the center of the Milky Way, an otherwise ordinary star is moving at an extraordinary speed. Every 8.7 years, the faint ...

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