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LHAASO has uncovered that micro-quasars, black holes feeding on companion stars, are powerful PeV particle accelerators.

On the Swiss–French border, at the headquarters of the European laboratory CERN, a battle is under way for the future of particle physics. CERN’s leaders want to build the biggest machine on the ...

Breaking the rules is exciting, especially if they have held for a long time. This is true not just in life but also in particle physics. Here the rule I'm thinking of is called “lepton flavor ...

Neutrinos slip through your body by the trillions each second. They rarely hit anything. They barely seem to exist. Yet a ...

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Chinese scientists claim they have cracked a decades-old dilemma, turning a much sought-after vision into reality.

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