After years of confusion, a new study confirms the proton is tinier than once thought. That enables a test of the standard model of particle physics.
A supercharged neutrino that smashed into our planet in 2023 may have been spit out by an exploding primordial black hole ...
The big bang wasn’t the start of everything, but it has been impossible to see what came before. Now a new kind of cosmology is lifting the veil on the beginning of time ...
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...
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'Impossible' particle that crashed into Earth with 100,000 times the energy of the LHC may actually be from an exploding black hole
In 2023, a subatomic particle smashed into the Mediterranean Sea with enough energy to rattle the foundations of physics. The particle was a neutrino, a fundamental subatomic particle that usually ...
Hypothetical dark matter stars known as "boson stars" could leave telltale ripples across the cosmos, offering researchers a new way to probe the invisible forces shaping the universe. In 2019, a ...
John Martinis has already revolutionised quantum computing twice. Now, he is working on another radical rethink of the technology that could deliver machines with unrivalled capabilities ...
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Record smashed for largest object to be seen as a quantum wave
A microscopic clump of sodium has become the largest object ever to be observed as a wave, improving upon previous records by thousands of atoms. Quantum physics defines particles in terms of waves, ...
In his posthumous book Brief Answers to the Big Questions, released on October 16, the physicist tackles the ultimate inquiry: Does God exist? His answer ...
The tiny fatty capsules that deliver COVID-19 mRNA vaccines into billions of arms may work better when they're a little ...
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