Although LEGO Ideas sets are far and away some of the coolest builds available to brick heads, some sets fans submit never make it to retail stores. It’s a tragedy, frankly, especially in the case of ...

Particle accelerators smash tiny particles together to reveal the universe's building blocks. These machines have grown dramatically in size and power over time, leading to major discoveries. The ...

In 2010, when scientists were preparing to smash the first particles together within the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), sections of the media fantasised that the EU-wide experiment might create a black ...

Particle accelerators are typically massive, mile-long electron racetracks, but for the first time scientists have discovered a way to shrink this technology to the width of a human hair to create a ...

Particle accelerators are some of the most complicated machines in science. Scientists are working on ways to run them with a diminishing amount of direction from humans. In 2015, operators at the ...

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 ...

A new accelerator and detector will serve as a kind of camera, taking 3D images and movies of electrons colliding with polarized protons and ions. Like a CT scanner for atoms, the EIC will let ...

MANKATO - Andrew Roberts, a physics professor at Minnesota State University, has been on the hunt for a particle accelerator for years now. So when he heard the Triangle Universities Nuclear ...

Investigating cosmic mysteries by smashing protons together. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. What mysteries of the universe could ...