Particle accelerators are often framed as exotic machines built only to chase obscure particles, but they are really precision tools that use electric fields and magnets to steer tiny beams of matter ...

Before telescopes, ancient Greek astronomers relied on naked-eye observations of the night sky to understand the universe around them. The meticulous star catalog belonging to one of the best of these ...

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Mark Thomson, the new head of Europe's physics laboratory CERN, voiced confidence Tuesday about raising the billions of dollars needed to build by far the world's biggest particle accelerator. CERN, ...

Neutrinos are very small, neutral subatomic particles that rarely interact with ordinary matter and are thus sometimes referred to as ghost particles. There are three known types (i.e., flavors) of ...

Ancient Greek astronomers made important observations regarding the night sky long before the first telescope was invented in the 1600s. These pioneering astronomers relied on naked-eye observations ...

Cervical cancer remains a leading cause of cancer-related death among women globally, despite the availability of effective prevention through human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination and HPV-based ...