NEWPORT NEWS, VA – Since it first went online more than 30 years ago, the Vertical Test Area at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has gotten used to ...

The world's largest particle accelerator is about to take a long break. After years of smashing protons together, the Large ...

The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest atom smasher, has shut down for a planned 4-year upgrade that will make it 10 times more sensitive than its initial version.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's most powerful particle accelerator, is entering a major upgrade phase.

As particle accelerator technology moves into the high-luminosity era, the need for extreme precision and unprecedented collision energy keeps growing. Given also the Laboratory's desire to reduce ...

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The U.S. Department of Energy is betting $40 million that particle accelerators can crack one of nuclear power’s oldest problems: what to do with spent fuel that stays dangerously radioactive for ...

Twenty-five feet below ground, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory scientist Spencer Gessner opens a large metal picnic basket. This is not your typical picnic basket filled with cheese, bread and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An ongoing innovative project aims to revolutionize the study and preservation of cultural heritage. Known as NoMAD ...

Brookhaven-designed accelerator has the potential to increase cure rates in cancer treatment while minimizing radiation dose and damage to healthy tissue Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's ...

Prototyping is an indispensable step in the development of particle physics experiments like DUNE and projects like PIP-II. When complete, the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, or DUNE, will be ...