Prof. Emeritus Roger Hildebrand, who worked on the Manhattan Project as an undergraduate before conducting pioneering work in particle physics and astrophysics at the University of Chicago, died Jan.

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The chief of the CERN physics laboratory says China's decision to pause its major particle accelerator project presents an ...

Everyone needs some “go to” demos. Personally, I like this one. It’s not too difficult to build and it’s easy to use. Take a large block of wood (it needs to have a good mass). I used a left over ...

A proposed funding program for small- and medium-scale projects reveals insights into the science, logistical challenges, and future of particle physics research. Particle physicists have a reputation ...

The United States should fund proposed projects to dramatically scale up its efforts in five areas of high-energy physics, an influential panel of scientists has concluded. Topping the ranking is the ...

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The project team designed the $51.2-million, 139,000-sq-ft University of New Mexico Physics and Astronomy Interdisciplinary Science (PAIS) Building to unite several science disciplines. Sustainability ...

Stephen Wolfram, inventor of the Wolfram computational language and the Mathematica software, announced that he may have found a path to the holy grail of physics: A fundamental theory of everything.

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