Surprising Discovery Gives "Plasma Lenses" a Clearer Future

It might surprise you that scientists at CERN--the home of the world's largest particle accelerator--don't always think bigger is better. At 17-miles in diameter, CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the biggest and most powerful particle accelerator in the world. It's the hub of high energy physics research, drawing scientists from around the globe and managing to make the Higgs boson a household name. But as CERN researchers look to the future, some of them are thinking small. Well, small in ...