JWST spots a mature early-universe spiral as CERN reveals how light nuclei form in extreme collisions, challenging core ...

Observations of the formation of light-nuclei from high-energy collisions may help in the hunt for dark matter.

An interview with Marumi Kado highlights the challenges and opportunities of the Future Circular Collider in particle physics ...

Interview with Marumi Kado on the future of particle physics and the origin of everythingFor many people, particle physics is ...

An international research team including Korean scientists has measured the precise properties of a 'tetraquark,' a particle ...

A boiling sea of quarks and gluons, including virtual ones—this is how we can imagine the main phase of high-energy proton ...

Boiling sea of quarks and gluons, including virtual ones – this is how we can imagine the main phase of high-energy proton ...

Uncharted territory An oxygen–oxygen collision in the CMS detector (left) and a neon–neon collision in the ATLAS detector (right). Credits: CMS; ATLAS “Early analyses have already helped characterise ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

CERN’s Large Hadron Collider will soon be smashing oxygen and neon atoms into other atoms of their own kind as part of its ATLAS experiment. The collisions will happen under enough heat and pressure ...

Collisions between lead ions at the LHC generate the hottest and densest system ever created in the laboratory. Under these extreme conditions, quarks and gluons are no longer confined inside hadrons ...