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 ...

Used commonly for cancer therapy and medical imaging, a particle accelerator takes up a lot of space due to its requirements, but now a team from the University of Maryland (UMD) has discovered a way ...

As the name suggests, particle accelerators involve accelerating subatomic particles to incredibly high speeds and smashing ...

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The cows grazing by the roads outside Geneva, Switzerland, have witnessed some pretty strange things these past few years: Trucks roll by carrying big, superconducting magnets that look like missiles, ...

In this photo, a purple glow of plasma is visible through an observation window in their decade-in-the-making benchtop ...

Researchers at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have set a new record by generating the highest-current, highest-peak-power electron beam ever recorded. The beam reached 100 kiloamps in just one ...

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 ...

Linac 4 will first go through a long testing period and then will be connected to CERN's accelerator complex during the expected technical shut down in 2019-2020. But the technology at the heart of ...