The Sun unleashes a torrent of charged particles. Some of them slam into the Earth’s atmosphere, triggering breathtaking auroras in the night sky. But for equipment that’s orbiting our planet in outer ...

Scientists have activated the smallest particle accelerator ever built—a tiny device roughly the size of a coin. This advancement opens new doors for particle acceleration, promising exciting ...

The future circular collider at CERN, intended to probe the properties of the Higgs boson in 20 years' time, excites ...

A gigantic two-mile-long structure has long been regarded as the world's longest building — and it is so vast that experts say the curvature of the Earth must be taken into account when measuring it.

A two-mile-long scientific building in California is considered the world's longest and takes around 40 minutes to walk from ...

On the Swiss–French border, at the headquarters of the European laboratory CERN, a battle is under way for the future of particle physics. CERN’s leaders want to build the biggest machine on the ...

Brazilian scientists are racing against time to finish building a particle accelerator the size of the Maracana football stadium before government funds run out or it is superseded by rival technology ...

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