Physicists have spent decades building colossal machines to hurl subatomic particles to near light speed, but the newest ...

With the help of carbon nanotubes and laser light, this machine can create immensely powerful X-rays on a microchip, ...

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 ...

The atypical structure of the radium monofluoride molecule allows physicists to search for answers to some of the universe’s ...

A particle accelerator that produces intense X-rays could be squeezed into a device that fits on a table, my colleagues and I ...

Deep beneath the border of France and Switzerland is the most massive, most ambitious experiment ever undertaken by humanity. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a particle accelerator that uses a ...