Physicists zero in on the mass of the fundamental W boson particle | MIT News
When fundamental particles are heavier or lighter than expected, physicists’ understanding of the universe can tip into the…
Scientists Just Found a Supermassive Black Hole That Lost 95% of Its Brightness… In Just Two Decades
Astronomers have observed a distant galaxy’s supermassive black hole undergoing a dramatic transformation. The galaxy’s black hole experienced…
What if dark matter came in two states?
image: The constellation of Ursa Major (The Great Bear) is home to Messier 101, the Pinwheel Galaxy. Messier…
Japanese quantum physicist quits University of Tokyo for Hong Kong position with triple pay, 10x lab budget
He says a rival offer delivered roughly three times his Japanese pay and a research budget about 10…
These Scientists Are Proposing a New Law of Nature
If there was an award for the most depressing law of physics, the prize would go to the…
Protected quantum gates using qubit doublons in dynamical optical lattices
Jaksch, D., Briegel, H.-J., Cirac, J. I., Gardiner, C. W. & Zoller, P. Entanglement of atoms via cold…
Superconductivity and electronic structures of nickelate thin film superstructures
Sun, H. et al. Signatures of superconductivity near 80 K in a nickelate under high pressure. Nature 621, 493–498…
Large Hadron Collider gives scientists their best look yet at conditions right after the Big Bang
The world’s most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, has given scientists their best look yet at…
High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CMS experiment
Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan, Armenia V. Chekhovsky, A. Hayrapetyan, V. Makarenko, A. Tumasyan, O. Kodolova & A. Nikitenko Institut für Hochenergiephysik, Vienna, Austria W.…
High-precision calculation of the quark–gluon coupling from lattice QCD
At the fundamental level, the strong nuclear force between nucleons arises from quantum chromodynamics (QCD), a quantum field…
Scientists Just Solved Why 8,000 Giant Black Holes Across the Universe Have Suddenly Stopped Growing
The most massive black holes in the universe are no longer growing the way they once did. A…
Experiments Ring the ‘Death Knell’ for Sterile Neutrinos
Neutrinos have about as little influence as a particle can have. They have essentially no heft, no electric…