China's Circular Electron Positron Collider was meant to pick up where the Large Hadron Collider left off, but the project was put on pause. Here's the story.

Researchers from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the University of California, Los ...

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In 1929, Ernest Orlando Lawrence invented the cyclotron: a compact, efficient particle accelerator that used magnets. Two ...

China’s decision to halt work on what was meant to be the world’s largest particle accelerator has reshaped the global race ...

China’s decision to halt work on what was meant to be the world’s largest particle accelerator marked a sharp turn in the ...

Scientists at Fermilab’s MicroBooNE experiment have ruled out the existence of the elusive sterile neutrino, a particle ...

Startup Substrate is building next-generation semiconductor fabs using advanced X-ray lithography. This goes beyond extreme ...

The particle in question, known as a sterile neutrino, was supposed to only interact with gravity and have zero interactions ...

Discover how Markov chains predict real systems, from Ulam and von Neumann’s Monte Carlo to PageRank, so you can grasp ...

The physics department at UC Santa Barbara houses its own powerful particle accelerator that accelerates electrons to 99.4% of the speed of light: The Sherwin Group’s ability to produce short and ...

As of 1 January 2026, Raimond Snellings will join the CERN Council as a representative of the Netherlands. The Council is the highest decision-making body of the world’s largest particle physics ...