The latter are designed to fire beams of particles, usually high-speed electrons, down a long copper tube at experimental targets. Stanford University, for example, now has a two-mile-long atom ...

R esearchers at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have created a high-energy, ultrashort, ultrahigh current petawatt ...

Scientists carefully positioned lasers to compress billions of electrons together, creating a beam five times more powerful ...

On July 2, a lightning strike started a fire in one of Jim Beam’s whiskey warehouses that burned for days, destroying structures and whiskey alike. The runoff liquid, which was by then a mixture ...