Deep inside every atom lies a restless world of quarks and gluons—the tiny building ...

Physicists at multiple institutions are compressing particle accelerators from facility-scale machines stretching hundreds of ...

A beam of electrons crossed just a few millimeters of plasma, then helped trigger an effect that usually belongs to massive ...

Particle accelerators reveal the heart of nuclear matter by smashing together atoms at close to the speed of light. The ...

Scientists have activated the smallest particle accelerator ever built—a tiny device roughly the size of a coin. This advancement opens new doors for particle acceleration, promising exciting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A small, thin silver column sits on the face of a dime. Scientists recently fired up the world's smallest particle accelerator for ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. This fall, physicists plan to throw ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A powerful new particle accelerator that could be set up at Fermilab, a telescope to observe the oldest light in the universe, and research to learn more about mysteries such as dark ...

Twenty-five feet below ground, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory scientist Spencer Gessner opens a large metal picnic basket. This is not your typical picnic basket filled with cheese, bread and ...

Find the latest Particle Accelerators news from WIRED. See related science and technology articles, photos, slideshows and ...

I don't know about you, but ever since I started covering the Large Hadron Collider and other large-scale particle accelerators for ExtremeTech, I've always morbidly wondered: What would happen if a ...