When the universe first burst into being, all of space was a cosmic cauldron filled with a roiling, fiery liquid of ...
The famed collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory has ended operations, but if all goes to plan, a new collider will rise ...
After 25 years, Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider—the U.S.’s largest particle collider—has ...
US physicists have shed light on a long-standing mystery after they captured rare experimental ...
Spin correlations within a particle collider may help crack one of the biggest mysteries known, said physicist Zhoudunming Tu.
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have uncovered experimental evidence that ...
Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.
Researchers have discovered that superconducting nanowire photon detectors can also be used as highly accurate particle detectors, and they have found the optimal nanowire size for high detection ...
ROCHESTER, Minn. — A decade after opening, the Mayo Clinic Proton Therapy Program­ in Rochester, Minnesota, has treated 10,000 patients. Annually, the program treats 30%–40% more patients than most ...
Particle therapy, including proton and carbon ion radiotherapy, represents a major advancement in cancer treatment due to its ...