The famed collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory has ended operations, but if all goes to plan, a new collider will rise ...
For a mere moment after the Big Bang, no neutrons or protons are thought to have existed. These neutral and positively charged particles, respectively, make up the center of all atoms today. But ...
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America’s only particle collider just shut down to unlock a mind-blowing new machine
At Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider has powered down for the last time, ...
After 25 years, Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider—the U.S.’s largest particle collider—has ...
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World’s first particle collider shows matter emerges from ‘nothing’ in quantum vacuum
US physicists have shed light on a long-standing mystery after they captured rare experimental ...
Just after 9 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026, final beams of oxygen ions—oxygen atoms stripped of their electrons—circulated ...
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US largest particle collider wraps up final run after 25 years of discoveries
The largest particle collider in the US, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), has ...
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BNL’s collider ends 25-year run, new electron-ion machine to rise
For more than two decades, researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s particle accelerator have recreated conditions ...
Alchemy is no longer a myth. See how scientists turned lead to gold by recreating Big Bang conditions on Earth and why this discovery is a scientific milestone.
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