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Scientists running the Large Hadron Collider, aka the "big bang machine", announced Friday they've discovered a brand new particle during one of their experiments. The discovery's announcement first ...

The machine designed to recreate conditions immediately following the big bang successfully completed its first experiment today -- putting to rest some skeptics' fears that the particle collisions ...

GENEVA (AP) — Scientists switched on the world's largest atom smasher Friday night for the first time since the $10 billion machine suffered a spectacular failure more than a year ago. It took a year ...

Deep beneath the border between France and Switzerland, the world’s top scientists are studying tiny pieces of matter to find the answers to some of the biggest questions in the universe.