Two of the Most Elusive Particles Might Interact. That Would Change Our Knowledge of the Universe.
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What can you do with 380 million Higgs bosons? – CERN Courier
What is the fate of the universe? Why is there more matter than antimatter? What lurks beyond the…
These Gravitationally Lensed Supernovae Could Resolve The Hubble Tension
One of the most stubborn issues in cosmology today concerns the Universe’s rate of expansion. Scientists know it’s…
Solving the Mystery of Blue Flashes
The universe occasionally produces flashes of light so bright and so blue that they outshine entire galaxies, then…
Electrons stop acting like particles—and physics still works
Quantum physics shows that particles do not behave like solid objects with fixed locations. Instead, they act more…
Scientists discover ‘impossible’ quantum state at near absolute zero
Scientists have uncovered a previously unthinkable state of matter that challenges decades of assumptions about how electrons behave,…
Unmasking the Sun’s Hidden Gamma Ray Factory
When the Sun erupts in its most violent flares, it doesn’t just hurl plasma and particles into space.…
New research challenges the cold dark matter assumption
Scientists from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and Université Paris-Saclay are calling into question a long-standing idea…
A physicist discovers that all objects, even soap bubbles, break in the same pattern.
The distribution of fragments of a shattering object becomes predictable Fragmentation has long been of interest to scientists,…
Chinese scientists confirm 87-year-old quantum-mechanics prediction, opening new path for lighter dark matter searches
The atom Photo: VCG Chinese scientists have for the first time directly observed the Migdal effect in neutron-nucleus…
Approaching optimal microwave–acoustic transduction on lithium niobate using superconducting quantum interference device arrays
Brubaker, B. M. et al. Optomechanical ground-state cooling in a continuous and efficient electro-optic transducer. Phys. Rev. X…
JWST interferometric imaging reveals the dusty torus obscuring the supermassive black hole of Circinus galaxy
Observations Circinus was observed (ID: 4611; PI: Lopez-Rodriguez, E.) on 20240715 and 20250427 using the Aperture Masking Interferometry…