Our home planet is bombarded with particles from outer space all the time. And while we are mostly familiar with the rocky ...

Researchers found for the first time evidence that even microquasars containing a low-mass star are efficient particle accelerators, which leads to a significant impact on the interpretation of the ...

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Researchers found for the first time evidence that even microquasars containing a low-mass star are efficient particle ...

“The small-scale experiments are like a sandbox for exploring ... But how do scientists get a heavy metal into a particle accelerator?

Particle accelerators can be linear (straight) or circular in shape and have many different sizes. They can be tens of kilometres long or fit in a small room, but all accelerators feature four ...

When you think of a particle accelerator, you usually think of some giant cyclotron with heavy-duty equipment in a massive mad-science lab. But scientists now believe they can create particle ...