What really happens inside a particle accelerator? Discover how these incredible machines unlock the secrets of the universe.

Texas A&M University professor Peter McIntyre and his colleagues want to build a particle accelerator around the rim of the Gulf of Mexico in order to discover the most fundamental building blocks of ...

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's most powerful atom smasher, was switched off on Monday night ahead of major ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Often in physics, if you want to investigate the very small, you need to build something very big. The most famous example—the Large Hadron ...

Particle accelerators reveal the heart of nuclear matter by smashing together atoms at close to the speed of light. The high-energy collisions produce a shower of subatomic fragments that scientists ...

Banks of computer screens stacked two and three high line the walls. The screens are covered with numbers and graphs that are unintelligible to an untrained eye. But they tell a story to the operators ...

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Built in 1945, Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, or ENIAC, was the world's first digital, programmable computer—it also weighed 30 tons and was the size of a small room. Today, computers ...

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NEWPORT NEWS, VA - A pocket-size gizmo that puts the “pop” in microwave popcorn could soon fuel particle accelerators of the future. The small but mighty device is a magnetron – a mashup of the words ...