Far lighter than other ions collided at the LHC, oxygen (and neon) could tell us about conditions in the early universe.

The Large Hadron Collider is one of the biggest experiments in history, but it’s also one of the hardest to interpret. Unlike ...

The Higgs boson, discovered in 2012 thanks to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), is at the heart of the Standard Model of particle physics because it explains why particles have mass. So far, scientists ...

The Z boson is a massive, electrically neutral particle that mediates the weak nuclear force—one of nature's fundamental forces. With a mass of about 91 billion electronvolts (GeV), it ranks ...