Particle and nuclear physics evokes evokes images of huge accelerators probing the extremes of matter. But in this round-up ...

You’ve probably seen Lichtenberg figures before, those lightning-like traces left by high-voltage discharge. The safe way to create them is using an electron beam to embed charge inside an ...

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An international team of scientists has just demonstrated, for the first time, a stream of particles escaping from a young, massive star cluster in our galaxy by combining data from NASA's ...

China's Circular Electron Positron Collider was meant to pick up where the Large Hadron Collider left off, but the project was put on pause. Here's the story.

A particle accelerator was used to create lightning in a bottle by charging a spinning acrylic tube with high-energy ...

Watch a nuclear engineer react to Lightning Bottle from a Particle Accelerator by Electron Impressions. This video dives into ...

In collisions at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, hotter than the Sun’s core by a staggering margin, scientists have finally ...

In late November, airlines around the world were told to urgently ground planes within their Airbus A320 fleets.

The chief of the CERN physics laboratory says China's decision to pause its major particle accelerator project presents an "opportunity" to ensure Europe's rival plan goes ahead. Ten years ago, China ...

Radiation can wreak havoc on the human body when it's exposed to high doses or for prolonged periods of time. The world understood this in horrifying detail after the Chernobyl and Fukushima Daiichi ...