A gigantic "blazar" may have fired a beam of light-speed particles at our planet, creating a 2023 "ghost particle" detection.

Particle accelerators are crucial tools in a wide variety of areas in industry, research and the medical sector. The space these machines require ranges from a few square meters to large research ...

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NASA’s Juno Mission has captured electrons traveling near the speed of light in Jupiter’s magnetic environment, providing ...

For over two decades, scientists at CERN observed unexplained particle losses in their Super Proton Synchrotron. A new study ...

Laser-plasma interaction encompasses the intense coupling between high-power laser pulses and ionised matter, leading to the generation of extreme electric and magnetic fields. When a femtosecond or ...

The most energetic "ghost particle" neutrino ever detected may have been blasted at Earth by blazars, black hole engines that ...

Some of the most fundamental questions about our universe are also the most difficult to answer. Questions like what gives matter its mass, what is the invisible 96 percent of the universe made of, ...

NEWPORT NEWS, VA – More than 30 of the world’s most advanced particle accelerators for research are built on one technology: superconducting radiofrequency (SRF) technology. It’s typically powered by ...

Roger Barlow passed away suddenly on 1 February 2026 at his home in Wales. He had an illustrious career in particle physics ...