A slender glass fiber no thicker than a human hair placed across a particle beam could improve accelerator monitoring. A team ...

A particle accelerator that produces intense X-rays could be squeezed into a device that fits on a table, my colleagues and I ...

The atypical structure of the radium monofluoride molecule allows physicists to search for answers to some of the universe’s ...

The ability of single particle cryo-electron microscopy to capture structural information on samples that could not be crystallized for use with crystallographic methods or were too delicate for ...

Sapra et al. developed an integrated particle accelerator using photonic inverse design methods to optimize the interaction between the light and the electrons. They show that an additional kick of ...

By the late 1800s, the scientific world was buzzing with questions about electricity and light. Several researchers were ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. If you want to probe the frontiers of fundamental physics, you have to ...

The universe is a big place, but it's made out of small pieces. The periodic table includes elements such as oxygen, carbon and other building blocks that make up stars, cats or cups of coffee. But ...

What is single particle cryo-EM? Single particle cryo-EM involves using electron microscopy to take up to millions of images of a biological sample using low-dose radiation. Cryo-EM has been in use ...