(via Kyle Hill) On November 17th, 1992 a scientist accidentally stuck his hand in an extremely powerful beam of x-rays at a particle accelerator accelerator facility in Hanoi, Vietnam. This [HALF-LIFE ...

As the name suggests, particle accelerators involve accelerating subatomic particles to incredibly high speeds and smashing ...

A microchip with the electron-accelerating structures with, in comparison, a one cent coin. If you think of a particle accelerator, what may come to mind is something like CERN’s Large Hadron Collider ...

The world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator smashed protons together on Friday, bringing scientists closer to understanding the Big Bang. CERN researchers put three beams of protons ...

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the giant underground particle accelerator that brought us the Higgs boson, restarted on Easter Sunday (April 5). The LHC laid dormant for two years while it was ...

Scientists at CERN, the home of the Large Hadron Collider, have just observed an astoundingly rare phenomenon at the subatomic level that could lead to a new understanding of the standard model of ...

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva, Switzerland, is the largest particle accelerator ever built and one of the most ...

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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 ...

There was something on the canvas underneath the painting -- a blue and black wash? a mistake? another image? -- that was slowly emerging as the oil pants aged You can save this article by registering ...