NEWPORT NEWS, VA – Since it first went online more than 30 years ago, the Vertical Test Area at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has gotten used to ...

CERN scientists on Tuesday pulled off the unprecedented feat of transporting antiprotons by road, successfully test-driving the world's first antimatter delivery system, with an eye to one day ...

Nuclear energy isn't exactly clean, with nuclear waste never exactly going away. But this inventive new process might help ...

The world's first automated production SRF quality testing facility contributes to the success of large-scale particle accelerators across the US and around the world DOE/Thomas Jefferson National ...

Scientists at CERN loaded 92 antiprotons into a cryogenic container, hoisted it by crane onto a flatbed truck, and drove it ...

Over a century ago, Ernest Rutherford discovered the proton by splitting the atom in a laboratory in Manchester. Today, researchers based in Manchester have discovered a new particle that Rutherford ...

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, ...

Scientists are unlocking new secrets of the universe with tiny particles called plasmons. These plasmons allow researchers to confine powerful electromagnetic energy within spaces smaller than a grain ...

A string of recent experiments has moved desktop-scale particle accelerators from theoretical curiosity to working prototypes ...