Mississippi State physicist creates neutron star reaction in the lab
For years, physicists have wondered whether one unstable form of copper might act like a traffic jam inside…
Laser pulses reveal ‘rugby ball’ shape of Universe’s heaviest atoms
Some of the heaviest atoms in the universe barely exist long enough to be studied, but scientists have…
Near-miss particle encounters reveal hidden secrets of strong force
Deep inside every atom lies a restless world of quarks and gluons—the tiny building blocks that hold everything…
Dive Into the Elusive World of Particles With the Global Physics Photowalk Finalists
Here’s something you rarely see so up close. The photograph above shows one of 18 optical modules inside…
Scientists Just Took a Giant Step Toward Scaling Up Nuclear Fusion
A team of researchers at MIT think they may have lowered one of the major barriers to achieving…
Scientists Taught AI to Predict Nuclear Fusion Success—and It’s Actually Working
AI is giving a huge efficiency boost to one of the biggest nuclear fusion facilities in the world—but…
Direct observation of coherent elastic antineutrino–nucleus scattering
Data taking Data from the CONUS+ run 1 analysis presented in this study correspond to the period from…
Quarks break the rules of symmetry at low energy levels
For decades, physicists have relied on the principle of symmetry to simplify and understand the complex behaviors of…
When quarks misbehave, symmetry breaks down and changes the rules of physics
For decades, physicists have relied on the principle of symmetry to simplify and understand the complex behaviors of…