Researchers from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the University of California, Los ...

Particle and nuclear physics evokes evokes images of huge accelerators probing the extremes of matter. But in this round-up ...

You’ve probably seen Lichtenberg figures before, those lightning-like traces left by high-voltage discharge. The safe way to create them is using an electron beam to embed charge inside an ...

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An international team of scientists has just demonstrated, for the first time, a stream of particles escaping from a young, ...

China's Circular Electron Positron Collider was meant to pick up where the Large Hadron Collider left off, but the project ...

A particle accelerator was used to create lightning in a bottle by charging a spinning acrylic tube with high-energy ...

A particle accelerator is not some kind of evil super villain torture device. A particle accelerator is used for health, safety, discovery, and for learning more about our universe. You can't see what ...

One of the main questions in exoplanet science concerns M dwarfs (red dwarfs) and the habitability of exoplanets that orbit ...

Radiation can wreak havoc on the human body when it's exposed to high doses or for prolonged periods of time. The world understood this in horrifying detail after the Chernobyl and Fukushima Daiichi ...

MEYRIN: The chief of the CERN physics laboratory says China's decision to pause its major particle accelerator project presents an "opportunity" to ensure Europe's rival plan goes ahead. Ten years ago ...