Particle accelerators are often framed as exotic machines built only to chase obscure particles, but they are really precision tools that use electric fields and magnets to steer tiny beams of matter ...

Just a few hundred feet from where we are sitting is a large metal chamber devoid of air and draped with the wires needed to control the instruments inside. A beam of particles passes through the ...

The U.S. Department of Energy is betting $40 million that particle accelerators can crack one of nuclear power’s oldest ...

Two scientists explain how a linear accelerator works—and how it could reveal rare forms of matter Two scientists explain how a linear accelerator works—and how it could reveal rare forms of matter ...

The development of medicine has been always been dependent on the evolution of our knowledge of physics. Imaging cells in our bodies using microscopy and broken bones using X-ray radiation are two ...