A distant cluster of galaxies is wrapped in a vast halo of high-energy particles that could be the work of supermassive black ...

The world’s largest atom smasher has conducted its first-ever collisions between protons and oxygen ions, as part of an ...

Conventional accelerators use oscillating electric fields to drive charged particles to relativistic speeds. The Large Hadron ...

John Peoples was asked in the mid-1990s about the value of doing pure scientific research — that which has no predetermined ...

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) gets a breath of fresh air as it collides beams of protons and oxygen ions for the very first ...

"The difference between a supercollider and a black hole is that black holes are far away, but nevertheless, these particles will get to us.” ...

China builds its first double-spoke superconducting cryomodule, boosting CSNS-II particle accelerator performance and ...

Solving life's great mysteries often requires detective work, using observed outcomes to determine their cause. For instance, ...

Computer simulations of high-energy particles are pushing the boundaries of what we can learn about the interactions that happen inside particle colliders ...