Particle accelerators are usually huge structures—think of the 3.2-km-long SLAC National Accelerator Lab in Stanford, ...

Europe's physics lab CERN on Thursday said private donors had pledged $1 billion toward the construction of a new particle accelerator that would be by far the world's biggest.

For the first time in the history of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), donors from the private sector ...

A particle accelerator is not some kind of evil super villain torture device. A particle accelerator is used for health, ...

In 2016, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) approved the high-luminosity large hadron collider (HL-LHC) upgrade project. LHC is currently the largest and most powerful particle ...

Norbert Holtkamp, a veteran of international research, takes over leadership of the particle physics laboratory in suburban ...

An invisible force has long eluded detection within the halls of the world’s most famous particle accelerator—until now.

Behind every particle collision generated at the Large Hadron Collider is a multitude of technical feats. One of these is ...

Particle accelerators smash tiny particles together to reveal the universe's building blocks. These machines have grown dramatically in size and power over time, leading to major discoveries. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Exciting news from the world of science. In a study published in the journal Nature Physics, scientists at CERN in ...