Researchers have developed a high-tech system that rapidly scans ants and converts them into detailed 3D models. Using a synchrotron accelerator, X-ray imaging, robotics, and AI, the team scanned ...

Digital reconstruction of the face of the Little Foot fossil. Credit: A. Beaudet / CC BY-SA 4.0 More than three million years before ancient civilizations emerged, a small-brained, upright-walking ...

Used nuclear fuel is one of the most persistent challenges facing nuclear energy. Long after a reactor stops using it, the material remains intensely radioactive, requiring cumbersome and expensive ...

Keeping high-power particle accelerators at peak performance requires advanced and precise control systems. For example, the primary research machine at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas ...

The Sun unleashes a torrent of charged particles. Some of them slam into the Earth’s atmosphere, triggering breathtaking auroras in the night sky. But for equipment that’s orbiting our planet in outer ...

Scientists used a particle accelerator to uncover centuries-old star observations by Hipparchus.Jacqueline Ramseyer Orrell/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Ancient Greek astronomers made important ...

The AI-powered Accelerator Assistant is revolutionizing operations at Berkeley's Advanced Light Source, enhancing efficiency in high-stakes scientific research. In Berkeley, California, the Advanced ...

Planned to be the largest particle accelerator in the world, China's Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC) was meant to be about 100 kilometers or 62 miles long. That's much bigger than CERN's ...

If you get a chance to visit a computer history museum and see some of the very old computers, you’ll think they took up a full room. But if you ask, you’ll often find that the power supply was in ...

A particle accelerator is not some kind of evil super villain torture device. A particle accelerator is used for health, safety, discovery, and for learning more about our universe. You can't see what ...

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ALBANY, N.Y. (WNYT)- A California-based company is getting $150M from the Trump Administration to build a particle accelerator at Albany Nanotech. Related: Race to succeed Stefanik in Congress begins ...