Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.
This is what the creation of a Higgs Boson looks like to the Large Hadron Collider. (Credit: CERN) The Higgs boson is, if ...
In its first moments, the infant universe was a trillion-degree-hot soup of quarks and gluons. These elementary particles ...
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Chinese Scientists Finally Prove a Forgotten 1930s Theory — Key Find for Dark Matter Research
After decades, Chinese researchers confirm the Migdal effect that may help reveal dark matter particles.
Scientists analyzing data from heavy ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)—the world's most powerful particle ...
In 1929, Ernest Orlando Lawrence invented the cyclotron: a compact, efficient particle accelerator that used magnets. Two years later, he founded what ...
Chinese scientists have made the first direct observation of a quantum effect that was proposed almost 90 years ago and could ...
The way time ticks forward in our universe has long stumped physicists. Now, a new set of tools from entangled atoms to black ...
In a landmark discovery that bridges nearly a century of theoretical physics, a Chinese research team has successfully captured the first direct evidence of the Migdal effect, a breakthrough with ...
Behind closed doors with the experts who study the end of the world—and what they know about humanity’s capacity for survival ...
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