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…
US: Scientists find Higgs mode in a semiconductor for the first time
Scientists at the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) in the US found an elusive type of vibration, called the…
Scientists settle decade-old proton size mystery with lasers
Physicists at Colorado State University have measured the radius of a hydrogen proton with unprecedented precision, helping resolve…
New 7-Dimensional Theory May Finally Solve the Black Hole Information Paradox
Researchers propose that extra-dimensional spacetime torsion prevents black holes from fully evaporating, leaving remnants that preserve quantum information.…
The Universe’s Most Powerful Particles May Be Even Stranger Than Scientists Thought
Artist’s impression of an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray reaching Earth. New research suggests that some of the highest-energy cosmic…
ATLAS observes new Bc meson excited state
The ATLAS Collaboration reports the first observation of the Bc*+ meson – a new composite particle state containing…
Someone Asked Physicists What They Really Believe About the Universe and… Yikes
You’d hope that the world’s brightest scientific minds would more or less agree on the nature of our…
Physicists May Be on the Verge of Discovering “New Physics” at CERN
Physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have uncovered new hints that certain particle decays may not behave as…
Quantum Metallurgy: Electron Crystals Deform and Melt
Photos Key takeaways Electron crystals, also called charge density waves, are clusters of electrons neatly arranged with uniform…
Weird Quantum Gadget Spits Out Chaotic ‘Sound Particles’
Scientists can now sculpt the quantum states of tiny particles to their liking—an odd yet mind-blowing revolution leading…
Scientists Develop New Way To Track Particles in 3D
Illustration of the first prototype of a new monolithic detector system capable of performing ultrafast, 3D and high-resolution…