Banks of computer screens stacked two and three high line the walls. The screens are covered with numbers and graphs that are unintelligible to an untrained eye. But they tell a story to the operators ...

In ion beam therapy, atomic nuclei are accelerated to high energies in a particle accelerator, for example, a synchrotron, ...

Atoms will reveal their secrets—you just need enough speed to coerce them. Scientists have known this since at least the 1920s, when they first started firing particles at nuclei via large tubes ...

The world’s biggest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), sits in a circular tunnel about one hundred meters beneath the Swiss French border near Geneva. It is huge—some 17 kilometers ...

While scientists are known for their dedication to their research, crawling on the floor to avoid electrocution for the sake ...

While scientists are known for their dedication to their research, crawling on the floor to avoid electrocution for the sake of a measurement seems ...