In 2010, when scientists were preparing to smash the first particles together within the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), sections of the media fantasized that the EU-wide experiment might create a black ...

Particle accelerators, also known as particle colliders or atom smashers, have been responsible for some of the most exciting physics findings over the past century, including the discovery of the ...

Linear accelerators have become an indispensable component in the advancement of particle therapy, offering precise control over the delivery of ionising radiation for cancer treatment. The field ...

Actinium-225 is a silvery metal isotope that barely exists on Earth. It’s also an incredibly promising cancer treatment, but researchers don’t know its full potential because there simply isn’t enough ...

Scientists have invented a new type of accelerator structure that could make accelerators used for a given application 10 times shorter. Particle accelerators generate high-energy beams of electrons, ...

As the name suggests, particle accelerators involve accelerating subatomic particles to incredibly high speeds and smashing ...