Does gravity act equally on all particles in the universe, or are there differences between ordinary and exotic matter?

Astronomers have uncovered new details about a powerful pulsar wind nebula hidden inside the CTA 1 supernova remnant, ...

Every second, particles zip through your body at nearly the speed of light. They rain down from a storm high in the sky, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A small, thin silver column sits on the face of a dime. Scientists recently fired up the world's smallest particle accelerator for ...

A beam of electrons crossed just a few millimeters of plasma, then helped trigger an effect that usually belongs to massive research sites. In this case, the light produced fell in the extreme ...

Twenty-five feet below ground, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory scientist Spencer Gessner opens a large metal picnic basket. This is not your typical picnic basket filled with cheese, bread and ...

CERN is moving several thousand computers that control its particle accelerator hardware from Red Hat-family Linux distros to ...

If you could peer into a particle physicist’s daydream, you might spy a vision of a giant lunar particle accelerator. Now, researchers have calculated what such an enormous, hypothetical machine could ...

The role magnets play in physics research is a critical one, helping guide the trajectory of particle beams that allow for high-speed collisions and groundbreaking discoveries. But not all magnets are ...

Opportunities span advanced MRI, particle accelerators, fusion energy, mass spectrometry, quantum computing and transportation. Better superconducting materials and cooling can cut operating costs, ...