Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Close up of a tunnel inside the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. - Richard Juilliart/Shutterstock Planned to be the largest particle ...

China’s decision to halt work on what was meant to be the world’s largest particle accelerator marked a sharp turn in the global race to probe the Higgs boson and the fabric of the universe. The ...

Europe's physics lab CERN on Thursday said private donors had pledged $1 billion towards the construction of a new particle accelerator that would be by far the world's biggest. In a first, private ...