Particle accelerators are often framed as exotic machines built only to chase obscure particles, but they are really ...

Whenever SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory's linear accelerator is on, packs of around a billion electrons each travel together at nearly the speed of light through metal piping. These electron ...

With the help of carbon nanotubes and laser light, this machine can create immensely powerful X-rays on a microchip, ...

Marco Carlone, founder of Linax Technologies, talks to Tami Freeman about his motivation for creating an online learning tool that teaches medical physicists how to use and understand linear ...

Stanford University was awarded a $13.5 million by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, for its contributions to the U.S. Department of Energy's Stanford Linear Accelerator Center National ...

Linac 4 will replace an older accelerator as the first step in the complex that includes the LHC. At a ceremony today, CERN European research center inaugurated its newest accelerator. Linac 4 will ...

Researchers have developed a new tool, using machine learning, that may make part of the accelerator tuning process 5 times faster compared to previous methods. Each year, researchers from around the ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Object 1978.1073.01.1 is the first ...

An innovative technique to accelerate particles could lead to smaller, cheaper and more energetic particle smashers. Publishing in Nature today, researchers working at the SLAC National Accelerator ...