As with every other projectile weapon in the game, particle beam weapons are available in several types, including shotguns, pistols, and rifles. While you can loot generic versions of these from ...

James Benford presents his Ultrahigh Acceleration Neutral Particle Beam-Driven Sails at Space Access 2019. The Neutral Particle Beam-Driven Sails could enable an interstellar probe to alpha centauri ...

Using beam weapons to zap ballistic missiles has been a dream since Ronald Reagan’s “Star Wars” initiative. Now the U.S. Missile Defense Agency is looking for technologies that will enable space-based ...

I don't know about you, but ever since I started covering the Large Hadron Collider and other large-scale particle accelerators for ExtremeTech, I've always morbidly wondered: What would happen if a ...

Shaping up: A new machine learning algorithm helps physicists reconstruct the shapes of particle accelerator beams from tiny amounts of training data. (Courtesy: Greg Steward/SLAC National Accelerator ...

In 2012, particle accelerators hit the headlines when researchers at CERN announced the discovery of the Higgs boson. This breakthrough discovery resulted from decades of research and experimentation ...