Before the RHIC shut down, it was the only operational particle collider in the U.S. and one of two heavy-ion colliders in the world, the other being the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland.

The famed collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory has ended operations, but if all goes to plan, a new collider will rise ...

LITTLE ROCK — The biggest, most expensive physics machine in the world is riddled with thousands of bad electrical connections. Many of the magnets meant to whiz high-energy subatomic particles around ...