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 ...

In a new Nature Physics study, researchers accelerated electrons to more than twice the energy predicted by the traditional ...

Scientists have used ultracold atoms to successfully demonstrate a novel method of particle acceleration that could unlock a new understanding of how cosmic rays behave, a new study reveals. More than ...

Cygnus X-3 particle accelerator now confirmed: China's LHAASO observatory recorded gamma rays at 30 PeV from a binary star ...

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

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

A beam of electrons crossed just a few millimeters of plasma, then helped trigger an effect that usually belongs to massive research sites. In this case, the light produced fell in the extreme ...

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

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

Particle accelerators are crucial tools in a wide variety of areas in industry, research and the medical sector. The space these machines require ranges from a few square meters to large research ...

Conceptual illustration of micronozzle acceleration (MNA). A solid hydrogen rod is embedded in an aluminum micronozzle, which channels and focuses plasma flow to optimize proton acceleration. Osaka, ...

TO GET to Edda Gschwendtner’s experiment, you enter a small, brutalist building at CERN, Europe’s particle physics laboratory on the outskirts of Geneva, Switzerland. You head into the lift and ...