This is what the creation of a Higgs Boson looks like to the Large Hadron Collider. (Credit: CERN) The Higgs boson is, if nothing else, the most expensive particle of all time. It's a bit of an unfair ...

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But only in the last 70 years have we known for certain they were there. In 1956, physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines ...

An obscure theory of elementary particles proved to be key to China’s re-emergence as a scientific nation after the Cultural ...

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Our existence rests on a razor‑thin imbalance in the early cosmos. When the universe was young, matter and antimatter should ...

By bringing the long-standing and opposing views of quantum mechanics together to form a single cohesive theory, a research ...

A new unified theory connects two fundamental domains of modern quantum physics: It joins two opposite views of how a single ...

Astronomers have discovered a stream of particles escaping from a young massive star cluster, Westerlund 1. This is the first ...

Tiny self-propelled nanorobots use body chemistry to navigate directly to tumors and deliver cancer drugs more effectively.

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Primordial black holes could rewrite our understanding of dark matter and the early universe. A record-breaking detection at ...