particle accelerators
An Extremely Powerful and Unexplained Energy Ray Tore Through Our Galaxy
The highly energetic gamma ray was more powerful than any particle accelerator on Earth, hinting at the existence of cosmic super-accelerators called PeVatrons.
Scientists Built a Particle Accelerator Smaller Than a Human Hair on a Chip
The chip's complex design was generated by a computer. "If you look at the design, no human engineer would have come up with it."
CERN’s New Collider Design Is Four Times Larger Than the LHC
If built, the Future Circular Collider will be 10 times more powerful than the Large Hadron Collider, and could discover new types of particles.
Leon Lederman, Nobel-Winning Physicist Who Coined the Term 'God Particle,' Dead at 96
Lederman sold his Nobel Prize at auction for $765,000 in 2015 in order to pay for medical bills.
CERN Researchers Are Making a DIY Cosmic Ray Detector in Their Spare Time
Cosmic Pi makes each user a single pixel in an open source cosmic ray telescope.
CERN Engineers Have to Identify and Disconnect 9,000 Obsolete Cables
This is why you should always tidy up as you go along.
A Large Hadron Collider Upgrade Will Produce 15 Million Higgs Bosons Per Year
CERN’s High-Luminosity upgrade to the LHC moves from design to prototyping phase.
Scientists Just Confirmed the Existence of a New Particle: the Pentaquark
Physicists have been looking for the pentaquark for over 50 years.
How Physicists Create Single Photons
Quantum physicist Peter Mosley explains in the latest 100 Second Science video.
This Is What It Looks Like When a Lithium Ion Battery Explodes
Engineers pushed a battery to its fiery limits, for science.
This Foot-Long Box Is the Most Advanced Particle Collider in the World
‘Plasma surfing’ accelerates particles 500 times faster than traditional methods.