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 ...

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In 2012, scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, proved the existence of the Higgs boson, the elementary particle that grants other particles their mass. The ...

Ohio University’s particle accelerator allows physics students to study and experiment with no limits to their learning.

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 ...

In a groundbreaking leap that seems almost out of a sci-fi novel, physicists have engineered a marvel of modern science—a particle accelerator so tiny, it could rest on a coin! Yes, you read that ...

Scientists at CERN, the home of the Large Hadron Collider, have just observed an astoundingly rare phenomenon at the subatomic level that could lead to a new understanding of the standard model of ...

(via Kyle Hill) On November 17th, 1992 a scientist accidentally stuck his hand in an extremely powerful beam of x-rays at a particle accelerator accelerator facility in Hanoi, Vietnam. This [HALF-LIFE ...