Particle Accelerators

Despite the stereotype of a lone, wild-haired Einstein working tirelessly at a chalkboard, today’s biggest…

The next generation of atom smasher could be a 100-kilometer-round ring, costing over $10 billion, with no promise…

Physicists at Fermilab have produced and tested a powerful magnet of the sort that could appear in the next…

Scientists found evidence of dust produced in nearby supernovae hiding under a thousand pounds of Antarctic snow,…

Scientists explore the limits of physics by pumping energy into components of atoms, such as electrons and protons,…

Scientists this week released a conceptual design report for a next-generation particle accelerator in China, which…

Read anything interesting in the news lately? No, really. I’m still catching up, because for much of the past week,…

Neutron stars are having a renaissance, as far as space objects go. These ultra-dense collapsed stars are the source…

An international committee devoted to the future of particle accelerators has recommended that scientists halve the…

Scientists working at CERN have found four new “tetraquark” particles comprised of the same four subatomic building…

Experiments at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in the U.S. have taken us a step forward in developing a…

If you know what a "Time Projection Chamber" or "Proton Synchrotron Booster" is, you're probably a physicist. And if…

One of the world's largest particle colliders is about to undergo upgrades that will make it considerably more…

Given how rarely neutrinos interact with other elementary particles, they're notoriously difficult to study and…

Are you still scratching your head over what a particle accelerator like the Large Hadron Collider actually does?…

Guinness World Records has recognized Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider as the…

As any particle physicist will tell you, if you want to find new particles, you're going to need a lot of energy.…

How do you fabricate solar panels at half the cost and 1/10th the thickness of conventional panels? With a…

Researchers at Fermilab, who run the Tevatron particle accelerator, say they've discovered a new particle "anomaly,"…

Chinese astronomers observed this supernova, RCW 86, in the year 185 A.D. But it's still pumping out cosmic rays,…