An exotic new approach could shrink kilometer-scale machines into table-top devices.

Scientists have successfully activated the world’s smallest particle accelerator, a device as compact as a coin. This ...

The quantum size of a neutrino has been measured for the first time using innovative table-top measurements of the particle’s ...

This technological netherworld is one very big scientific instrument, specifically, a particle accelerator-an atomic ... There are still physicists who do tabletop physics—who try to get big ...

Machine learning is transforming the control of particle accelerators, enabling "autonomous driving" for these complex systems. Researchers from the Institute of Modern Physics and Xiamen University ...

While the concept of Flash originated from radiobiologists over a decade ago, CERN is adapting its particle accelerators – originally designed for smashing atoms – to deliver radiation at ...

Particle detectors play a crucial role in our understanding of the fundamental building blocks of the universe. They allow ...

A 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is filled with lost words that scholars can now ...

To counteract such elements, scientists first need to better understand their behaviour. Accelerators help in this effort by using charged particle beams to strike selected materials to either analyse ...