Fermilab's Neutrino Detector Sees Its First Particles
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Science CERN physicists have made a particle that likely existed for just a microsecond after the Big Bang. Using the most powerful particle collider in the world, a research group at CERN has forged...
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Science Surf's up at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California. The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory's linear accelerator cuts through the grass and trees just west of Stanford...
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View Article3 Tech Futures A Particle Accelerator On Long Island Could Bring Us
Science Magic to expect from the world's brightest source of x-rays Last week, we journeyed to Long Island, New York, to tour one of the most advanced particle accelerators in the world. The occasion:...
View ArticleLook Inside The World’s Most Advanced X-ray-Shooting Superlab
Science 14 acres of room for 60 beamlines, 4,000 researchers, and a lot of science Although the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS-II)--what the U.S. Department of Energy hails as the "most...
View ArticleHow It Works: The Large Hadron Collider
Science To chaotically combine particles, you need a lot of space ... and a lot of power The world’s most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), famously upended physics with...
View ArticleTake A Look At The Infinity Machine
Science It's not as scary as it sounds Over at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) near Geneva, Switzerland, scientists have built a real, working "Infinity machine."…
View ArticleFirst Test For Machine That Could Change The Future Of Particle Physics
Science Method might shrink particle accelerators from town size to table size New Accelerator will make things smaller…
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