Europe's physics lab CERN on Thursday said private donors had pledged $1 billion toward the construction of a new particle accelerator that would be by far the world's biggest. In a first, private ...

Ninety million times a year, when protons crash together at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), they produce, in their wreckage, a top quark and an anti-top quark, the heaviest known elementary particles ...

Unity and Epic Games, the companies behind two of the most popular video game engines, are joining forces via a new partnership. It’ll bring Unity Games to Fortnite, and Unity’s commerce platform to ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Scientists at MIT discovered a method to create a kind of particle accelerator using a molecule of radium monofluoride. Once excited by lasers in a ...

"By reproducing relativistic plasma conditions in the lab, we can measure processes that shape the evolution of cosmic jets and better understand the origin of magnetic fields in intergalactic space." ...

Apps make it easy to map our own cycling routes, but there’s something special about pedaling along a rail-trail. The new PBS documentary, From Rails to Trails, follows the 60-year fight to convert ...

In 1963, Illinois naturalist May Watts, inspired by walking paths she’d seen in Britain, wrote a letter to the editor of the Chicago Tribune, suggesting converting a stretch of abandoned railroad into ...

The story of a 60-year struggle to convert abandoned railroads into trails for cycling and walking. Edward Norton narrates the story of one of the most unlikely social movements in American history: ...

A vulnerability found in the Unity game engine has led to studio Obsidian Entertainment taking down five of its games, including the premium edition of its 2025 release Avowed. The Unity issue, ...

Dipangkar Dutta receives funding from US Dept. of Energy and NSF. A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of subatomic particles. What ...

GREENVILLE — A property that includes one of the most-traveled sections of the Swamp Rabbit Trail just northwest of Unity Park could become home to a recreational wetland area as the city of ...