An invisible force has long eluded detection within the halls of the world’s most famous particle accelerator—until now.

Shaping up: A new machine learning algorithm helps physicists reconstruct the shapes of particle accelerator beams from tiny amounts of training data. (Courtesy: Greg Steward/SLAC National Accelerator ...

TAE Technologies and UKAEA form a new venture to commercialize particle accelerator and neutral-beam systems for fusion and ...

Whenever SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory's linear accelerator is on, packs of around a billion electrons each travel together at nearly the speed of light through metal piping. These electron ...

Scientists have taken a major step toward solving a long-standing mystery in particle physics, by finding no sign of the ...

Energy that would normally go to waste inside powerful particle accelerators could be used to create valuable medical ...

Using beam weapons to zap ballistic missiles has been a dream since Ronald Reagan’s “Star Wars” initiative. Now the U.S. Missile Defense Agency is looking for technologies that will enable space-based ...

Advances in accelerators built for fundamental physics research have inspired improved cancer treatment facilities. Accelerator physicists are natural-born problem solvers, finding ever more powerful ...

James Benford presents his Ultrahigh Acceleration Neutral Particle Beam-Driven Sails at Space Access 2019. The Neutral Particle Beam-Driven Sails could enable an interstellar probe to alpha centauri ...

Defense officials are taking a step back from one of its most ambitious research goals: launching a massive neutral-particle-beam generator, essentially a ray gun, into space to fry the electronics of ...

The world's most ambitious science experiment has got off to a successful start near Geneva on the Swiss-French border. Predictions of catastrophe came to nought at the firing of the first protons ...

Video: This animation begins with a close-up of the supermassive black hole in the centre of the galaxy 3C321. Hot gas falls towards the black hole; some is swallowed but much is ejected in a particle ...