Physicists from an international team led by the University of Liverpool proposed a dramatic shift in accelerator design.

Physicists have spent decades building colossal machines to hurl subatomic particles to near light speed, but the newest ...

We applaud people solving problems who are focused, efficient, and fast. But I was recently reminded that progress doesn’t always follow a straight line. Before investigators can conduct studies that ...

In the home, the lab and the factory, electric fields control technologies such as Kindle displays, medical diagnostic tests and devices that purify cancer drugs. In an electric field, anything with ...

We applaud people solving problems who are focused, efficient, and fast. But I was recently reminded that progress doesn’t ...

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

Particle accelerators have been responsible for revolutionary scientific breakthroughs, but the tech behind them isn't as ...

A particle accelerator that produces intense X-rays could be squeezed into a device that fits on a table, my colleagues and I have found in a new research project. The way that intense X-rays are ...

We applaud people solving problems who are focused, efficient, and fast. But I was recently reminded that progress doesn’t ...

The International Space Station is an example of extraterritorial international collaboration at the frontiers of scientific ...

In the dense environment of the early universe, dark matter particles would collide with, and annihilate, each other, releasing energy in the process. This energy could heat the hydrogen and helium ...