A multimillion-dollar government project is betting that particle accelerators can "burn" through the world's most dangerous ...

In the case of the most recalcitrant by-product of the nuclear industry, physics has never been the bottleneck. It has been engineering: How to transform a great idea on paper into hardware that is ...

Nuclear energy isn't as clean as we like to believe. The associated power plants produce small amounts of nuclear waste that require proper disposal. The main enemy here is time. All radioactive ...

Particle accelerators reveal the heart of nuclear matter by smashing together atoms at close to the speed of light. The high-energy collisions produce a shower of subatomic fragments that scientists ...