Mark Thomson, the new head of Europe's physics laboratory CERN, voiced confidence Tuesday about raising the billions of dollars needed to build by far the world's biggest particle accelerator. CERN, ...
A massive fire at a research center in western Germany has forced authorities to indefinitely delay the test phase of a billion euro particle accelerator, officials said on Thursday. The blaze broke ...
Before telescopes, ancient Greek astronomers relied on naked-eye observations of the night sky to understand the universe around them. The meticulous star catalog belonging to one of the best of these ...
Following a major fire at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, the planned particle accelerator FAIR cannot be tested as planned starting in December. This was announced by Hessian ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Future Circular Collider would have a circumference of 91 kilometres, at an average depth of 200 metres (HANDOUT) ...
Researchers are using an instrument at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to uncover the original text of reused parchments. Jacqueline Ramseyer Orrell / SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory A ...
I peeked in on the house-sized particle detector known as STAR just after it took its last-ever snapshot of one of the most extreme types of fireball ever created. Inside, the conditions just after ...
With robot delivery dogs and teleporting computers already a thing in the world, why not a real-life Star Wars warship? Luanniao, a 100,000-tonne mothership that can carry 88 fighter space planes, is ...
Using 16 years of data from NASA's gamma-ray detecting Fermi spacecraft, astronomers have discovered that "microquasars," ...
In July 2012, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Europe triumphantly announced the discovery of the Higgs boson, the long-sought linchpin of the subatomic world. Interacting with Higgs ...
The focus of this new AI accelerator is inference— the production deployment of AI models in applications. Its architecture combines high compute performance with a newly designed memory system and a ...