The famed collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory has ended operations, but if all goes to plan, a new collider will rise ...
In 1930, a young physicist named Carl D. Anderson was tasked by his mentor with measuring the energies of cosmic ...
In a cavernous tunnel beneath the French–Swiss border, physicists have briefly recreated conditions that existed microseconds ...
A cluster of 7,000 sodium atoms has just been coaxed into behaving as a single, ghostly wave, stretching quantum weirdness ...
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have uncovered experimental evidence that ...
After 25 years, Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider—the U.S.’s largest particle collider—has ...
A scientist who achieved worldwide fame with the discovery of the so-called ‘God particle’ left a £3.2 million fortune. Professor Peter Higgs was a researcher at the University of Edinburgh when he ...
Plutonium (Pu) exhibits one of the most diverse and complex chemistries of any element in the periodic table. Since its discovery in 1940, scientists have synthesized and studied many different types ...