The beam being fired into your body isn’t big. Its precision can be measured in millimeters. The machine that’s generating it is hidden somewhere in this building behind walls of concrete that are up ...

In 1929, Ernest Orlando Lawrence invented the cyclotron: a compact, efficient particle accelerator that used magnets. Two ...

For 10 years, Cyclotron Road, housed at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (Berkeley Lab), has been supporting scientists, ...

The process to determine who will operate the multi-million-euro machine that can help diagnose cancer, and which has been dormant for years, will only start once the facility that houses it is ...

Works have started on the construction of a facility to house a multi-million-euro machine that can help diagnose cancer and that has been lying dormant at the Life Sciences Park for years. In June ...

Harvard’s cyclotron is a relic. The particle accelerator is so old, in fact, that the city considers it an historic building. And, now that Harvard wants to tear it down, the University needs the ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State University says Henry Blosser, a pioneering nuclear physicist and founding director of its cyclotron facility, has died. He was 85. Pope Leo urges end to ...

Four years ago a promising young physicist from the University of California, Ernest Orlando Lawrence, left his sunny campus and the ramshackle old building in which he was working, traveled eastward ...

Okay, not actually a cyclotron… but this ball cyclotron is a good model for what a cyclotron does and the concepts behind it feel kooky and magical. A pair of Ping Pong balls scream around a glass ...