Plans Revealed for Enormous Particle Collider in China
Scientists this week released a conceptual design report for a next-generation particle accelerator in China, which…
Facebook Vigilantes, Ugly Laptops, and Red Tide: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week
Read anything interesting in the news lately? No, really. I’m still catching up, because for much of the past week, I…
Surprising Accelerator Finding Could Change the Way We Think About Neutron Stars
Neutron stars are having a renaissance, as far as space objects go. These ultra-dense collapsed stars are the source of…
Scientists Propose Downsizing Next Big Particle Collider
An international committee devoted to the future of particle accelerators has recommended that scientists halve the…
CERN Physicists Have Discovered a Batch of New Exotic Particles
Scientists working at CERN have found four new “tetraquark” particles comprised of the same four subatomic building…
Freakishly Compact Particle Accelerators Could Revolutionize Physics
Experiments at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in the U.S. have taken us a step forward in developing a…
Explaining Particle Accelerators With a Vacuum and 1,000 Foam Balls
If you know what a "Time Projection Chamber" or "Proton Synchrotron Booster" is, you're probably a physicist. And if…
Could a juiced-up particle accelerator destroy the Earth?
One of the world's largest particle colliders is about to undergo upgrades that will make it considerably more powerful…
Fermilab's New Neutrino Cannon Shoots Subterranean Subatomics
Given how rarely neutrinos interact with other elementary particles, they're notoriously difficult to study and…
Particle Accelerators 101: If Only Every College Course Was Animated
Are you still scratching your head over what a particle accelerator like the Large Hadron Collider actually does?…
A New Record for the Highest Temperature We've Ever Created: A Whopping 4 Trillion Degrees Celsius
Guinness World Records has recognized Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider as the device…
Who needs particle accelerators when you can just use black holes?
As any particle physicist will tell you, if you want to find new particles, you're going to need a lot of energy. This…
The Ion Cannon Behind the Next Solar Revolution
How do you fabricate solar panels at half the cost and 1/10th the thickness of conventional panels? With a custom-built…
Have Scientists Discovered a New Elementary Particle?
Researchers at Fermilab, who run the Tevatron particle accelerator, say they've discovered a new particle "anomaly,"…
The Most Efficient Particle Accelerator Known To Humanity
Chinese astronomers observed this supernova, RCW 86, in the year 185 A.D. But it's still pumping out cosmic rays, and a…