Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A small, thin silver column sits on the face of a dime. Scientists recently fired up the world's smallest particle accelerator for ...

Particle accelerators are crucial tools in a wide variety of areas in industry, research and the medical sector. The space these machines require ranges from a few square meters to large research ...

SpaceX is no longer content to just launch hardware into orbit; it now wants to recreate key parts of the space environment in its own lab. By building a proton particle accelerator, the company is ...