To learn more about the nature of matter, energy, space, and time, physicists smash high-energy particles together in large ...

DESY scientists have taken a major step in refining laser plasma acceleration, a technology that could revolutionize particle ...

Penn physicists were among more than 13,000 researchers from 70 countries who shared the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental ...

Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) achieved the first direct laboratory observation of ...

In a dramatic leap for astrophysics, Chinese researchers have recreated a key cosmic process in the lab: the acceleration of ...

Laser plasma acceleration is a potentially disruptive technology: It could be used to build far more compact accelerators and open up new use cases in fundamental research, industry and health.

CERN’s leaders want to build the biggest machine on the planet here: an enormous particle accelerator that would open in 2070 and would dwarf the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the lab’s current ...