Particle accelerators smash tiny particles together to reveal the universe's building blocks. These machines have grown dramatically in size and power over time, leading to major discoveries. The ...

A microchip with the electron-accelerating structures with, in comparison, a one cent coin. If you think of a particle accelerator, what may come to mind is something like CERN’s Large Hadron Collider ...

Alex Knapp is a Forbes senior editor covering healthcare and science. Particle accelerators do exactly what they say on the tin - they move different kinds of subatomic particles very, very quickly.

This image, magnified 25,000 times, shows a section of a prototype accelerator-on-a-chip. The segment shown here are one-tenth the width of a human. The oddly shaped gray structures are ...

Particle accelerators play important roles across a wide range of science, medicine and engineering. They also tend to be very large and expensive facilities, which means that beam time on ...

Huge particle accelerators like the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) in the US don’t run themselves – it takes a team of highly-skilled technicians and engineers to keep the lights on. Back in 2015, ...

Particle accelerators have helped us unravel some of the universe’s biggest mysteries, but they're huge, expensive, and inaccessible to most researchers. A new particle accelerator on a chip could ...

At their core, solar panels are made of the same thing computer chips are made of: silicon. Pure silicon is made in long cylinders, called boules, that are sliced into hundreds or thousands of very ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

This little chip may be hardly the size of a speck of glitter, but don’t underestimate what it can do. It’s actually a particle accelerator that is able to boost electrons at a rate 10 times greater ...

Laser plasma device could be light enough to be used on the field.

For the first time, scientists have created a silicon chip that can accelerate electrons -- albeit at a fraction of the velocity of the most massive accelerators -- using an infrared laser to deliver, ...