Physicists have now demonstrated a particle accelerator so small it fits inside a single molecule, shrinking one of science’s ...

We’re used to seeing ever greater particle accelerators — colossal machines sprawling across landscapes, built to reveal the ...

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

The atypical structure of the radium monofluoride molecule allows physicists to search for answers to some of the universe’s ...

Energy that would normally go to waste inside powerful particle accelerators could be used to create valuable medical ...

Historically, particle accelerators have been massive structures, often spanning kilometers underground. The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, for example, stretches 17 miles (27 km) and is one of the ...

This image, magnified 25,000 times, shows a section of a prototype accelerator-on-a-chip. The segment shown here are one-tenth the width of a human. The oddly shaped gray structures are ...

The accelerator-on-a-chip demonstrated in Science is just a prototype, but Vuckovic said its design and fabrication techniques can be scaled up to deliver particle beams accelerated enough to perform ...

An electrical device that generates charged particles, such as electrons, protons and ions, at high energy. So-called "nuclear accelerators" are used to split the atom for scientific research, but ...

BATAVIA, Ill. (WLS) -- Fermilab in west suburban Batavia broke ground on a new particle accelerator project Friday. The new machine will power cutting-edge physics experiments for years to come by ...

If you could peer into a particle physicist’s daydream, you might spy a vision of a giant lunar particle accelerator. Now, researchers have calculated what such an enormous, hypothetical machine could ...