Atomic clocks are the world's most precise timekeepers. Based on periodic transitions between two electronic states of an atom, they can track the passage of time with a precision as high as one part ...

Dr Archana Sharma is a senior CERN physicist who has been closely associated with some of the laboratory's most important ...

CERN’s “irradiation station” will investigate the effect of radiation on commercial materials, such as lubricants and gaskets, that are used regularly in accelerator beamlines and other radiation ...

There’s a lot of matter around, which ensures that any antimatter produced experiences a very short lifespan. Studying antimatter, therefore, has been extremely difficult. But that’s changed a bit in ...

Located somewhere on the outskirts of the Swiss city of Geneva, the CERN facility is known to most of us as the home of the Large Hadron Collider. This is the massive underground structure that ...