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 ...

After 25 years, Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider—the U.S.’s largest particle collider—has ...

Just after 9 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026, final beams of oxygen ions—oxygen atoms stripped of their electrons—circulated ...

At Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider has powered down for the last time, ending operations at the only particle collider still running in the United ...

For more than two decades, researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s particle accelerator have recreated conditions ...

For the first time, physicists have developed a model that explains the origins of unusually stable magic nuclei based ...