The High Intensity heavy-ion Accelerator Facility (HIAF), one of China's major scientific and technological infrastructure projects, successfully completed commissioning with beam on October 28, ...

It will allow scientists to peer into the inner workings of supernovas When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The world's most powerful ...

Heavy ions could radically improve radiation therapy for treatment of pancreatic cancer and other difficult-to-treat tumors if researchers can better understand how the ions work against cancer. A new ...

Just a few hundred feet from where we are sitting is a large metal chamber devoid of air and draped with the wires needed to control the instruments inside. A beam of particles passes through the ...

Deep beneath the border of France and Switzerland is the most massive, most ambitious experiment ever undertaken by humanity. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a particle accelerator that uses a ...

There is technology being perfected to make particle accelerators 100-1000 times lower cost. This would enable production of nuclear material for space propulsion that could reach up to 0.5% of light ...

Sean Liddick receives funding from the Department of Energy . Artemis Spyrou receives funding from the National Science Foundation in the U.S. Just a few hundred feet from where we are sitting is a ...

This site handled (or was contaminated by) uranium and radium, according to government records. The Department of Energy initially considered cleaning up this site under the Formerly Utilized Sites ...

Particle accelerators produce and accelerate beams of charged particles, such as electrons, protons and ions, of atomic and sub-atomic size. They are used not only in fundamental research for an ...