A 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is filled with lost words that scholars can now ...

Anatoli Bugorski was hit in the head with a proton beam that put hundreds of fatal doses of radiation through him, and ...

A particle accelerator is used for health, safety, discovery, and for learning more about our universe. You can't see what it does, but you can feel it." More for You ...

A huge detector in the Mediterranean Sea spotted the most energetic neutrino from space to date. The particle could shed light on the universe’s most extreme phenomena.

When you think of a particle accelerator, you usually think of some giant cyclotron with heavy-duty equipment in a massive mad-science lab. But scientists now believe they can create particle ...

a quadrillion times more energetic than particles of light called photons and 10,000 times more energetic than particles made by the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator ...

Particle accelerators produce and accelerate beams of charged particles, such as electrons, protons and ions, of atomic and sub-atomic size. They are used not only in fundamental research for an ...

Across Japan, more than 500 patients with head and neck cancers have been ... a stream of low-energy neutrons using a compact particle accelerator, irradiating the now boron-heavy tumour tissue.

Laser-based approaches promise a low-cost, compact and simple alternative, compared with conventional accelerators. Particle accelerators are used extensively in many branches of the natural sciences.

While the concept of Flash originated from radiobiologists over a decade ago, CERN is adapting its particle accelerators – originally designed for smashing atoms – to deliver radiation at ...

The world’s most powerful particle accelerator is ready to start delivering proton collisions to experiments at a record-breaking energy level after three years of upgrade and maintenance work. The ...