Unlocking Efficiency: How Ultra-Smooth Surfaces Improve Particle Accelerators
A new toolkit helps monitor and improve the efficiency of superconducting radiofrequency cavities in particle accelerators by ...
Every fusion startup that has raised over $100M
Based in Everett, Washington, Helion has raised $607.64 million, according to PitchBook. Investors include Sam Altman, Reid ...
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MIT’s Star Wars-inspired ‘tractor beam’ uses light to capture, manipulate cells
Optical traps and tweezers use focused light beams to capture and move tiny biological particles, such as cells or DNA ...
Niobium-tin magnet could be key to unlocking potential of heavy-ion accelerator
Researchers from Berkeley Lab's Accelerator Technology & Applied Physics (ATAP) Division have teamed up with colleagues from ...
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CERN70: Switching on the Large Hadron Collider
The beginning of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) dates back to the early 1980s. CERN's major accelerator, the Large Electron Positron Collider (LEP), was still in its study phase. But scientists were ...
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What does a Mars trip do to the brain?
It’s not long before a conversation about space travel is likely to turn to the impact on the human body. Our bodies have ...
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Scientists make lab-grown black hole jets
An experiment using beams of protons to probe how plasma and magnetic fields interact may have just solved the mystery of how quasars and other active supermassive black holes unleash their ...