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In 2005, Valley’s department got an instrument of its own: a room-filling, multimillion-dollar instrument called a Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometer (SIMS) built by the French manufacturer CAMECA.

The discovery of a new subatomic particle that may be the elusive Higgs boson has electrified the entire field of physics. The particle has profound implications for understanding our universe.

A diagram of the BEAR project payload system, part of the first particle accelerator launched into space. Asimov wasn't alone in suggesting we develop an extraterrestrial particle accelerator.

A new $3.4 million accelerator mass spectrometer, ... more simply and at a faster rate than the AMS system it has replaced, which is based on a 50-year-old Van de Graaff particle accelerator.

The largest-ever experiment in space has reported the collection of some 18 billion "cosmic ray" events that may help unravel the Universe's mysteries.

A concentration of one part per billion is like a pinch of salt in 10 tons of potato chips—and scientists can now find radioactive particles at concentrations millions of times smaller.