Deep underground in southern China, there is a 20,000-ton tank of liquid that can detect neutrinos. Named JUNO, the ...
Periodic maintenance is common too, but still inefficient and often based on time, not actual machine condition. That ...
UChicago physics Prof. Bonnie Fleming, who is also the chief research officer at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, is ...
The supercollider is now being used to explore quantum phenomena, including a “magic” form of quantum entanglement.
Energy that would normally go to waste inside powerful particle accelerators could be used to create valuable medical ...
Antimatter particles are mirror versions of matter particles, with the opposite values of properties such as electric charge.
A scientist analyzing Fermi telescope data found a strange glow around the Milky Way that looks like it could be coming from ...
A radical new theory begins with a central claim: consciousness is the fundamental field of reality; time, space, and matter ...
We’re used to seeing ever greater particle accelerators — colossal machines sprawling across landscapes, built to reveal the ...
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How do particle accelerators really work?

Particle accelerators are often framed as exotic machines built only to chase obscure particles, but they are really precision tools that use electric fields and magnets to steer tiny beams of matter ...
Physicists have long known how lightning ends, in a blinding discharge that can heat air hotter than the surface of the Sun, ...