It's time for our annual listener question show, where we find answers to your burning science questions like: is the asteroid belt an exploded planet? Why can't whales breathe under water? What ...

It provides world-class facilities for research in particle and nuclear physics, accelerator science, life sciences and materials science. An incorporated non-profit with charitable status, TRIUMF Inc ...

The IPAC is one of the largest and most influential international conferences in the field of particle accelerators. Since 2010, it has been hosted annually on a rotating basis among Asia, Europe, and ...

Particle accelerators such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva accelerate protons and other subatomic particles to almost the speed of light and then cause them to collide with each other.

Proton beams with giga-electron-volt (GeV) energies—once thought to be achievable only with massive particle accelerators—may soon be generated in compact setups thanks to a breakthrough by ...

Startup aims to shrink particle accelerators to transform semiconductor manufacturing The Bay Area company seeks to challenge ASML with compact X-ray technology By Skye Jacobs June 11, 2025, 7:03.

Europe is gearing up to revolutionize the study of the Universe with a colossal project spearheaded by the CERN laboratory. Plans are underway to build a new particle accelerator, the Future Circular ...

Computer simulations of high-energy particles are pushing the boundaries of what we can learn about the interactions that happen inside particle colliders ...

On June 11, the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine announced the result of a three-year study to set a ...

Conventional accelerators use oscillating electric fields to drive charged particles to relativistic speeds. The Large Hadron ...

Final results from a long-running U.S.-based experiment show a tiny particle continues to act strangely -- but that’s still good news for the laws of physics as we know them.