World’s largest neutrino detector pushed to 300,000 volts at CERN
Scientists have been testing the limits of the world’s largest neutrino experiment after they subjected the prototype detector…
New superconducting magnets reach full power for HiLumi LHC upgrade
CERN has just upgraded the world’s largest particle accelerator after successfully powering a new generation of superconducting magnets…
Dark matter may be naturally tuned to a hidden fifth dimension
Dark matter appears to hold galaxies together, yet it has never shown itself directly. A new theory suggests…
Scientists Turned a 200-Year-Old Light Trick Into a Modern Breakthrough
A Poisson spot contains four types of skyrmions in one light spot. Credit: Optica / NTU Singapore A…
Decades-Old Dark Matter Explanation Fails Its Most Direct Test Yet
A decades-old dark matter claim is facing a decisive new challenge. The result clears the way for future…
Scientists achieve the impossible by creating matter from empty space
Something has been lurking in empty space, and for the first time, physicists may have caught it leaving…
God Particle detector shut for four years: Here’s what will happen in 2030
The world’s most powerful particle accelerator has gone silent, but only for now. The European Council for Nuclear…
New laser spring offers new ways to drive plasma
Scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and the University of California, Irvine have designed a new high-intensity…
Large Hadron Collider that discovered God Particle shut for four years: Here’s why
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle accelerator and the machine that famously discovered the…
A Decade-Long Physics Mystery May Finally Be Solved
Ultraviolet laser light being used to probe the atomic hydrogen for the research. Credit: Ben Ward/Colorado State University…
JUNO’s First Results Bring the Neutrino Mass Mystery Into Focus
A giant underground neutrino observatory in China has delivered its first major scientific result, achieving remarkably precise measurements…
Meet Harish-Chandra: The forgotten Indian mathematician who corrected a Nobel laureate and transformed modern physics |
Some scientists make discoveries. Others create entirely new ways of understanding the universe. Harish-Chandra belonged to the latter…