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Particle Physics
The LHC has a long, productive life ahead of it. An upgraded version, called the “High Luminosity LHC,” will be available in 2028.
If you look into a mirror, you'll notice that left-and-right are reversed, but up-and-down is preserved. The reason isn't what you think.
You are an energy field — but not the “chakras” or “auras” kind.
With a massive, charged nucleus orbited by tiny electrons, atoms are such simple objects. Miraculously, they make up everything we know.
That scary swirling void from which nothing can escape is our perfect universal translation tool.
We are about to learn a lot more about the most elusive of cosmic particles.
With a bigger, better, and more sensitive detector, the XENON collaboration joins LZ and PANDA-X in constraining WIMP dark matter.
2023 is an exciting time for the study of quark-gluon plasmas.
If there are three neutrino species, all with different masses, then how is energy conserved when they oscillate from one flavor to another?
We can't go back to the Big Bang, nor ahead to the heat death of the Universe. Nevertheless, here are today's natural temperature extremes.
A non-invasive method for looking inside structures is solving mysteries about the ancient pyramid.
If you're a massless particle, you must always move at light speed. If you have mass, you must go slower. So why aren't any neutrinos slow?
Protons and neutrons are held together by the strong force: with 3 colors and 3 anticolors. So why are there only 8 gluons, and not 9?
When you combine the Uncertainty Principle with Einstein's famous equation, you get a mind-blowing result: Particles can come from nothing.
Are quantum fields real, or are they simply calculational tools? These 3 experiments show that if energy is real, so are quantum fields.
Recent measurements of subatomic particles don't match predictions stemming from the Standard Model.
A Fermilab study confirms decades-old measurements regarding the size and structure of protons.
Apart from the energy needed to flip the switch, no other energy is needed to transmit the information.
Experiments tell us quantum entanglement defies space and time.
When you bring two fingers together, you can feel them "touch" each other. But are your atoms really touching, and if so, how?
"Once quantum mechanics is applied to the entire cosmos, it uncovers a three-thousand-year-old idea."
It isn't just identical particles that can be entangled, but even those with fundamentally different properties interfere with each other.
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Do humans have souls, or are we just particles? Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder explains.
The difference between predictions and observations of the magnetic properties of muons suggests a mystery for the Standard Model.
For years and over three separate experiments, "lepton universality" appeared to violate the Standard Model. LHCb at last proved otherwise.
Every proton contains three quarks: two up and one down. But charm quarks, heavier than the proton itself, have been found inside. How?
A concept known as "wave-particle duality" famously applies to light. But it also applies to all matter — including you.
Light carries with it the secrets of reality in ways we cannot completely understand.
Like Dua Lipa, he had to create new rules.
The answer to this question is key to understanding why anything exists.