A particle accelerator is not some kind of evil super villain torture device. A particle accelerator is used for health, ...

An invisible force has long eluded detection within the halls of the world’s most famous particle accelerator—until now.

The pumps that circulate gas mixtures through these particle detectors must be extremely reliable and keep the gases ...

The chief of the CERN physics laboratory says China's decision to pause its major particle accelerator project presents an ...

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Every time two beams of particles collide inside an accelerator, the universe lets us in on a little secret. Sometimes it's a particle no one has ever seen. Other times, it's a fleeting glimpse of ...

Texas A&M University professor Peter McIntyre and his colleagues want to build a particle accelerator around the rim of the Gulf of Mexico in order to discover the most fundamental building blocks of ...

Twenty-five feet below ground, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory scientist Spencer Gessner opens a large metal picnic basket. This is not your typical picnic basket filled with cheese, bread and ...

If you get a chance to visit a computer history museum and see some of the very old computers, you’ll think they took up a full room. But if you ask, you’ll often find that the power ...

Scientists recently fired up the world's smallest particle accelerator for the first time. The tiny technological triumph, which is around the size of a small coin, could open the door to a wide range ...

A California-based company is getting $150M from the Trump Administration to build a particle accelerator at Albany Nanotech.