You can’t hold antimatter in your hand or even in a regular laboratory apparatus. As soon as antimatter meets matter, the two ...

Building the Nobel-prizewinning neutrino experiment was a big risk. To continue its success, scientists — and funders — need ...

While scientists are known for their dedication to their research, crawling on the floor to avoid electrocution for the sake of a measurement seems a little excessive. But this is what British ...

An RIT student designed magnet storage equipment for the Brookhaven National Laboratory team building the first Electron-Ion ...

In the early 1930s, scientists were just beginning to discover the extraordinary world hidden inside the atom, which is made up of a dense center, called the nucleus, with electrons orbiting around it ...

Particle accelerators are experimental techniques and associated infrastructures that use electromagnetic fields to accelerate charged particles, such as electrons, protons, or heavy ions, to high ...

Particle accelerators are usually associated with sprawling research facilities, massive magnets and long tunnels. A different approach uses laser-generated terahertz radiation to manipulate electrons ...

All visible matter in the universe – stars, planets, you, me – is made up of some combination of 12 fundamental particles. The lightest and most abundant of these are neutrinos. They are also the ...

On "Hacker News," a bulletin board where engineers and entrepreneurs from around the world gather, technical news and reading ...

When the universe was born, space was too hot and dense for atoms to exist. Even the constituents of atoms—the protons and neutrons that make up atomic nuclei—couldn’t immediately coalesce. Instead ...