ATLAS breaks its own record with new search for double-Higgs production
Producing two Higgs bosons in a single proton-proton collision is among the rarest processes at the LHC. Yet…
Scientists Discover Extreme Acceleration Inside a Nuclear Fireball
Two Lorentz-contracted nuclei (left and right) collide and ignite a fireball that expands violently outward. Credit: Xu-Guang Huang…
A Powerful Cosmic Accelerator Has Been Confirmed in the Milky Way
NASA’s Fermi telescope detected GeV gamma rays from LHAASO J1912+1014u, helping confirm it as a proton PeVatron. The…
Astronomers Catch Black Holes “Burping” in Radio with the NSF VLA
Newswise — Astronomers using the U.S. National Science Foundation Very Large Array (NSF VLA) have found that when…
ATLAS observes new Bc meson excited state
The ATLAS Collaboration reports the first observation of the Bc*+ meson – a new composite particle state containing…
ATLAS maps the rare four-way intersections of the weak force
Despite its resounding success at describing high-energy phenomena, the Standard Model of particle physics provides no explanation for…
CERN Timepix chips fly to the Moon
Six Timepix chips developed at CERN will measure the radiation environment inside the spacecraft that will orbit the…
Illinois and UChicago Physicists Develop a New Method to Measure the Expansion Rate of the Universe
Newswise — We have known for several decades that the universe is expanding. Scientists use multiple techniques to…
New Standard for Hexavalent Chromium Analysis: Improving Accuracy with synchrotron X-ray Technology
Newswise — A team of Korean researchers has developed a reference material that significantly improves the accuracy of…
From Fleeting to Stable: Scientists Uncover Recipe for New Carbon Dioxide-Based Energetic Materials
Newswise — When materials are compressed, their atoms are forced into unusual arrangements that do not normally exist…
Superconducting Circuits: How LLNL Is Building on Nobel Prize-Winning Quantum Technology
Newswise — This fall, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John…
Can Scientists Detect Life Without Knowing What it Looks Like? Research Using Machine Learning Offers a New Way
Newswise — When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late…