A particle accelerator on display in a museum exhibition is rare. But a functioning particle accelerator conducting real scientific research in a museum exhibition? That's unprecedented. After years ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, has deployed a proton accelerator at its Education and Outreach Center.

CERN's large hadron collider is responsible for discovering the Higgs boson particle in 2012, which confirmed a hypothesis ...

Cancer irradiation with hadron beams, a method to which CERN contributed by propelling carbon ion therapy of radioresistant tumors into the medical world some thirty years ago, has treated more than ...

Laser ion acceleration uses intense laser flashes to heat electrons of a solid to enormous temperatures and propel these charged particles to extreme speeds. These have recently gained traction for ...

Bringing protons up to speed with strong laser pulses -- this still young concept promises many advantages over conventional accelerators. For instance, it seems possible to build much more compact ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Object 1978.1073.01.1 is the first ...

MedStar Georgetown University Hospital recently installed a proton accelerator, the first of its kind in D.C. MedStar Georgetown University Hospital began installation of Washington, D.C.’s first ...

Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis has installed the world’s first superconducting synchrocyclotron proton accelerator to deliver proton therapy to cancer patients, according to a hospital news ...