When you think of a particle accelerator, you usually think of some giant cyclotron with heavy-duty equipment in a massive mad-science lab. But scientists now believe they can create particle ...

Most people assume that being struck by an intense beam of radiation would be instantly fatal. For Soviet physicist Anatoli ...

Within the constellation Aquila in the northern skies, a powerful cosmic accelerator has been pumping out fast-moving ...

Cygnus X-3 provides opportunity to test how black holes and other objects launch particles to highest energies in the Milky Way, team says A China-led team has detected the highest-energy light ...

China’s Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) has identified the most powerful particle ...

The famous particle accelerator has gone silent, but its next chapter could usher in a new era of particle physics.

CERN shuts down the Large Hadron Collider for four years to prepare a major upgrade that could transform particle physics.

Deep beneath the border of France and Switzerland is the most massive, most ambitious experiment ever undertaken by humanity. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a particle accelerator that uses a ...

A particle accelerator that produces intense X-rays could be squeezed into a device that fits on a table, my colleagues and I have found in a new research project. The way that intense X-rays are ...

If you could peer into a particle physicist’s daydream, you might spy a vision of a giant lunar particle accelerator. Now, researchers have calculated what such an enormous, hypothetical machine could ...

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Experimental physics rarely tops the news agenda, but the 2008 launch of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) catapulted academic theories such as the search for the Higgs boson – also known as the “God ...