With the help of carbon nanotubes and laser light, this machine can create immensely powerful X-rays on a microchip, ...

Physicists have now demonstrated a particle accelerator so small it fits inside a single molecule, shrinking one of science’s ...

The atypical structure of the radium monofluoride molecule allows physicists to search for answers to some of the universe’s ...

A slender glass fiber no thicker than a human hair placed across a particle beam could improve accelerator monitoring. A team ...

Historically, particle accelerators have been massive structures, often spanning kilometers underground. The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, for example, stretches 17 miles (27 km) and is one of the ...

Particle accelerators smash tiny particles together to reveal the universe's building blocks. These machines have grown dramatically in size and power over time, leading to major discoveries. The ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

On July 5, 2022, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, restarted its machine known as a particle accelerator. The machine was restarted today after a three-year upgrade and ...

Description: Hospitals have all sorts of amazing tools, and some might even have a particle accelerator hiding somewhere in ...

Scientists have made a particle physics discovery that they say could mean nothing less than the upheaval of our entire model of the building blocks of the universe—if their results can be ...

With the help of special telescopes, researchers have observed a cosmic particle accelerator as never before. Observations made with the gamma ray observatory H.E.S.S. in Namibia show for the first ...