China's building the world's largest "ghost particle" detector thousands of meters below the South China Sea. What is a ghost particle and why would it need to be detected? China is building an ...

Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN discovered the particle in 2012. Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, responsible for one of the greatest scientific discoveries in the last ...

THE world’s most powerful particle accelerator is firing up its engines once again this week following an extended hiatus. After more than three years of upgrade and maintenance work, the Large Hadron ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...