The Large Hadron Collider is going to be shut down — not permanently, but for a pretty long time — and the famous atom ...

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

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

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

An international team of researchers is pushing forward with plans for a radically smaller, cheaper particle accelerator by using a powerful technique that's been decades in the making, known as the ...

Particle accelerators could be incredibly useful for medicine – if they weren’t so huge. The SLAC accelerator, for example, is almost 2 mi (3.2 km) long, while CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) runs ...

An electrical device that generates charged particles, such as electrons, protons and ions, at high energy. So-called "nuclear accelerators" are used to split the atom for scientific research, but ...

This image, magnified 25,000 times, shows a section of a prototype accelerator-on-a-chip. The segment shown here are one-tenth the width of a human. The oddly shaped gray structures are ...

BATAVIA, Ill. (WLS) -- Fermilab in west suburban Batavia broke ground on a new particle accelerator project Friday. The new machine will power cutting-edge physics experiments for years to come by ...