"Go big or go home" might be the unofficial motto of the United States -- but in the case of the world's newest and most advanced particle accelerator, that's certainly not the case. The new ...

A diagram of the BEAR project payload system, part of the first particle accelerator launched into space. Asimov wasn't alone in suggesting we develop an extraterrestrial particle accelerator.

Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have developed a nanostructured silica-based “particle accelerator on a chip” which ...