Over the coming years, Michigan State University’s Facility for Rare Isotope Beams is set to explore a number of big questions in nuclear physics. Just a few hundred feet from where we are sitting is ...

As the name suggests, particle accelerators involve accelerating subatomic particles to incredibly high speeds and smashing ...

The Spallation Neutron Source at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory set a world record when its linear accelerator reached an operating power of 1.55 megawatts, which improves on ...

The USA has only two accelerators that can produce 10 billion electron-volt particle beams, and they're each about 1.9 miles (3 km) long. "We can now reach those energies in 10 cm (4 inches)," said ...

Nothing can travel faster than light, or 299,792,458 meters per second. But a certain group of particles acts as if it can, a team of physicists recently concluded, potentially paving the way for a ...

Two beams of protons zipped around the Large Hadron Collider on Friday, marking the return of the world’s largest particle accelerator after over three years on hiatus. The European Organisation for ...

Actinium-225 is a silvery metal isotope that barely exists on Earth. It’s also an incredibly promising cancer treatment, but researchers don’t know its full potential because there simply isn’t enough ...

CentraCare — Rice Memorial Hospital has installed a new linear accelerator in the Willmar Cancer Center, which will provide more precise radiation treatments to cancer patients. CentraCare — Rice ...

bluefield – A new piece of medical equipment installed in a lead-lined vault is bringing new cancer treatment options to people across southern West Virginia and neighboring Southwest Virginia. WVU ...