GENEVA ” Scientists expect startup glitches in the massive, complex machines they use to smash atoms. But the unique qualities of the world’s largest particle collider mean that the meltdown of a ...

As atom-smashing goes, the uranium bomb is a comparatively gentle affair. Fissioning the uranium atom is roughly comparable to cracking a ripe coconut in half with a well-placed tap: the atom splits ...

The Pacific Northwest — a hub for the fusion energy sector — has kicked off its annual Seattle Fusion Week. Here are the ...

The Wendelstein 7-X stellarator in Germany has broken the record for plasma duration in a nuclear fusion reactor. Fusion reactions were sustained at high performance levels for 43 seconds, which is a ...

Each person on earth unwittingly encounters a shower of cosmic rays about once a minute, whether indoors or out. Each shower covers two or three acres and contains from 100,000 to 1,000,000 high-speed ...

While the reality of affordable fusion energy is still an atom-smashing twinkle in physicists’ eyes, the state of Washington is moving ahead with plans to support the nascent commercial fusion sector.

Getting the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) up and running was one of the most complex scientific endeavors humanity has ever embarked upon. The deviously complicated instrument first came online in 2008, ...

For about 40 years, nuclear physicists at the University of Minnesota smashed atoms in hopes of discovering what lies beyond. In 1938, a machine called the ‘Van de Graaff’ was built behind Tate ...