The Large Magellanic Cloud, which is visible only from the Southern Hemisphere, has been caught in the crosshairs of the ...

Medieval alchemists toiled unsuccessfully to change lead into gold, but physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland had better luck – though for only a microsecond.

The answer is a gargantuan machine - the largest, most expensive scientific experiment in history, the 'Large Hadron Collider', to be turned on next Wednesday. Although it was designed to answer ...

Medieval alchemists dreamed of transmuting lead into gold. Today, we know that lead and gold are different elements, and no ...

There wasn't a lot of gold and it didn't last long, but the results are still impressive. For centuries, alchemists dreamed ...

In a paper published in Physical Review C from the team at A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE) at the European ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Deep in the Oxfordshire countryside sits a fantastical proposition: a vast solar panel-clad circle, as enchanting ...

A rosy outlook: researchers have found that rose petal growth is all about geometric frustration (courtesy: CC BY SA Georges Seguin) Roses have been cultivated for thousands of years, admired for ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A cloud of large thick smoke billowed over parts of downtown and could be seen for miles over Kansas City Tuesday evening as firefighters battled a large building fire.

Residents have been advised to keep windows and doors closed after a large tyre fire sent huge plumes of smoke into the sky. Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service said it was dealing with the fire ...

It was the most energetic neutrino ever observed, clocking in at an estimated 220 peta-electronvolts (PeV), an energy 16,000 times greater than anything created at the Large Hadron Collider ...

Power supplies have been returning in Spain and Portugal after large parts, including the capitals ... "We got on the train and everything was fine," she told Sky News. "But then everything ...