Gamma rays detected by NASA's Fermi spacecraft indicate that microquasars are powered by small black holes slowly devouring ...
Neutrinos are ghostly subatomic particles that can travel in a straight line for billions of light-years, passing unhindered ...
Machine learning is transforming the control of particle accelerators, enabling "autonomous driving" for these complex systems. Researchers from the Institute of Modern Physics and Xiamen University ...
A 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is filled with lost words that scholars can now ...
Undersea detectors anchored deep in the Mediterranean Sea found an ultra-high-energy neutrino, a particle that opens a new ...
The world’s biggest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), sits in a circular tunnel about one hundred meters beneath the Swiss French border near Geneva. It is huge—some 17 kilometers ...
Scientists at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have achieved a significant milestone in laser-plasma accelerator ...
Scientists have developed a method for generating fast, bright proton beams using a high-repetition-rate laser-plasma ...