Over a century ago, Ernest Rutherford discovered the proton by splitting the atom in a laboratory in Manchester. Today, ...

Deep inside every atom lies a restless world of quarks and gluons—the tiny building ...

Scientists are unlocking new secrets of the universe with tiny particles called plasmons. These plasmons allow researchers to confine powerful electromagnetic energy within spaces smaller than a grain ...

Physicists from the European Center for Nuclear Research have discovered a new particle, the 80th in its history, whose ...

Particle accelerators reveal the heart of nuclear matter by smashing together atoms at close to the speed of light. The ...

Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have discovered a new particle, the Ξ cc ⁺, (“Xi cc plus”), a heavier cousin ...

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A lot of the science from our accelerators is published long after collisions end, so storing experimental data for future physicists is crucial. About a billion pairs of particles collide every ...

The muon collider was once dismissed as impossible, but is now gaining steam as the successor to the Large Hadron Collider.