Each cluster has a mass of more than 170,000 atomic mass units, making it heavier than most proteins. Despite this, the ...

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An obscure theory of elementary particles proved to be key to China’s re-emergence as a scientific nation after the Cultural ...

After years of careful investigation, researchers working on the Micro Booster Neutrino Experiment (MicroBooNE) have determined that a ...

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Experiments reveal that metallic nanoparticles thousands of atoms wide can exist in quantum superposition, providing a ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Esra Barlas Yücel, a researcher at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, about Fermilab's most precise measurements of the muon particle's magnetic wobble. It's ...

A new unified theory connects two fundamental domains of modern quantum physics: It joins two opposite views of how a single ...

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Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. One of the biggest questions in particle physics is whether the ...

Now, two unrelated-but-similar experiments confirm that, in a double-slit experiment, detection of a photon’s path (its ...

The particle in question, known as a sterile neutrino, was supposed to only interact with gravity and have zero interactions ...