Tiny quantum defects in diamonds to unlock the secrets of the universe
Researchers in the US have launched a USD 1 million project to develop quantum sensors by using the…
Anatoli Bugorski survived a proton beam to the head
On June 3, 1978, Soviet physicist Anatoli Bugorski was checking malfunctioning equipment on the U-70 synchrotron — the…
Impossibly powerful ‘ghost particle’ that slammed into Earth may have come from an exploding black hole — and it could upend both particle physics and cosmology
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AI for Particle Physics: Searching for Anomalies
In 1930, a young physicist named Carl D. Anderson was tasked by his mentor with measuring the energies…
New physics? Ion trap experiment targets ‘fifth force’ to explain dark matter
Scientists are using “trapped ions” in highly precise experiments to search for a new, fifth force of nature…