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Time to Cross the Beams! LHC to Commence First Proton Smashing Tomorrow
The Large Hadron Collider's Compact Muon Solenoid courtesy CERN The Large Hadron Collider has been coming along in fits and starts, but the European Organization for Nuclear Research plans to begin...
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At Physics Conference, Scientists Say They Are Closing In on 'God Particle'
Tevatron Fermilab As particle physicists gather this week for a conference in Paris, they're reporting progress toward finding the elusive Higgs boson, with two groups suggesting a Higgs discovery may...
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Particle Accelerators Could Be Used to Produce Energy (and Plutonium)
Tevatron Fermilab Particle accelerators, which are not renowned for their real-world applications, could in fact be used to produce energy, according to a 34-year-old research paper that resurfaced...
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Chip-Sized Particle Accelerators Could Lead to Cancer-Fighting Ray Guns
Particle Accelerator On a Chip via IEEE Spectrum Forget the gigantic Large Hadron Collider — how about a particle-accelerator-on-a-chip?OK, so it can't reach the energies produced at the LHC or...
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Tevatron Closes After 28 Years of Particle Smashing
Fermilab Fermilab, Reidar Hahn View Photo GalleryToday, the Tevatron accelerator at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory just outside Chicago has closed, ending its 28 years of smashing protons...
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New Results Confirm: The Particle Believed To Be The Higgs Boson Really Is...
Big Smash: Atlas's eight giant superconducting magnets, together powerful enough to crush a bus CERN The Higgs Boson really, really is the Higgs Boson. At first, testing at the Large Hadron Collider...
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A Powerful Particle Accelerator The Size Of A Speck Of Glitter
Accelerator Chips Matt Beardsley/SLAC This little chip may be hardly the size of a speck of glitter, but don't underestimate what it can do. It's actually a particle accelerator that is able to boost...
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'Indisputable' Proof Of A New Four-Quark Particle
Large Hadron Collider CERN Using the most powerful particle collider in the world, a research group at CERN has forged a particle made of four quarks, the European organization announced...
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A Powerful Particle Accelerator The Size Of A Speck Of Glitter
Accelerator ChipsMatt Beardsley/SLACThis little chip may be hardly the size of a speck of glitter, but don't underestimate what it can do. It's actually a particle accelerator that is able to boost...
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Tabletop Device Would Destroy Chemical Weapons With X-Rays
Biological agent entering a cellDARPAThe Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which is overseeing the destruction of Syria's chemical arsenal, won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize....
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Fermilab's Neutrino Detector Sees Its First Particles
Up TopPhoto by FermilabElectronics get installed onto a Fermilab's neutrino detector.They've traveled 500 miles underground, passing through soil and rock as easily as Casper the Friendly Ghost glides...
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'Indisputable' Proof Of A New Four-Quark Particle
Large Hadron ColliderCERNUsing the most powerful particle collider in the world, a research group at CERN has forged a particle made of four quarks, the European organization announced yesterday.Most...
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Experimental Particle Accelerator Boosts Electrons On A Wave
The Plasma Wakefield AcceleratorSLAC National Accelerator LaboratoryThe plasma is contained in that metal box in the center.The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory's linear accelerator cuts through...
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The Week In Numbers: Sneaky Penguin Cars, Bullets For 3-D Printed Guns, And...
Solar system comparisonALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)450: Distance, in light years, star HL Tau is from Earth. HL Tau, also known as HL Tauri, was photographed in the first high-resolution image of a planetary...
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Hunting for Higgs
Photo Credit: Maximilien Brice (CERN) via Wikimedia CommonsProject: Higgs HuntersSmashing particles together, contemplating the nature of space and time: in the popular imagination, few occupations...
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3 Tech Futures A Particle Accelerator On Long Island Could Bring Us
NSLS-IICourtesy Brookhaven National Laboratory/FlickrScientists have high hopes for Brookhaven National Lab's National Synchrotron Light SourceLast week, we journeyed into the accent-rich wilds of Long...
View ArticleLook Inside The World’s Most Advanced X-ray-Shooting Superlab
Although the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS-II)--what the U.S. Department of Energy hails as the "most advanced synchrotron facility in the world"--was officially dedicated last Friday at...
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How It Works: The Large Hadron Collider
Inside The Large Hadron ColliderCERNThe world’s most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), famously upended physics with the discovery of the long-sought Higgs boson in 2012....
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Take 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."…
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First 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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