Scientists Create the Littlest Big Bang to Study the Universe’s Origins
In the very first moments of the universe, matter didn’t exist as we know today. A millionth of…
CERN physicists recreate matter from the early universe using ‘Little Big Bangs’
Physicists created signs of primordial quark-gluon plasma by colliding oxygen and neon nuclei, much smaller nuclei than traditionally…
Physicists Think They’ve Discovered a New Type of Quantum Matter
Quantum mechanics is all about explaining the weirdest, most unlikely aspects of our reality, including oddities we might…
CERN, where scientists smash particles at nearly the speed of light, has a 2-metre Shiva Nataraja statue outside; why India gifted the cosmic dancer to the physics lab in 2004
Lord Shiva Statue Unveiled (CERN official) For those who don’t know, CERN is Conseil Européen pour la Recherche…
CERN Experiment Finds Gluons Behaving Strangely Deep Inside Atomic Nuclei
The ALICE experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. Credit: CERN ALICE measurements suggest that gluons inside nuclei begin…
Inside the Experimental Traps Scientists Set for Ghostly Neutrinos
Seventy years ago, the physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines took a custom-built 10-ton detector, surrounded it with…
US scientists place strongest limit on muon’s hidden electric signal
Can a particle hide a secret in the tiniest of wobbles? A new analysis hints at this possibility.…
10,000 particles break action-reaction law to stay in constant motion
Researchers in Japan have unveiled how thousands of microscopic particles can spontaneously pair up, move, and reorganize themselves…
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…
World first: Scientists detect antineutrinos from spent nuclear fuel
Scientists have achieved a major breakthrough in nuclear physics after making the first direct measurement of antineutrinos released…
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…
CERN Experiments Detect Signs of the Universe’s Primordial Matter
Collisions between oxygen and neon nuclei at the Large Hadron Collider are revealing signs of quark–gluon plasma, the…