In a major milestone for particle physics, scientists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have successfully observed top ...

Physicists know from previous experiments that what happens at the nuclear scale to protons and neutrons also affects their ...

Carnegie Mellon University's Professor Curtis Meyer and his research colleagues explore an uncharted world inside protons and ...

In physics, the term "isotropy" means a system ... even very small nuclei with large ones might create tiny specks of a quark-gluon plasma ... Heating plasma to the ultra-high temperatures needed ...

Quark Matter 2025 is the XXXI international conference on ultra-relativistic nucleus–nucleus collisions, which will be held in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany. This conference brings together theoretical ...

More than a decade after its groundbreaking discovery, the Higgs boson continues to captivate the scientific community. This elusive particle, famously nicknamed the “God particle,” plays ... Continue ...

Feb. 6, 2025 — A team of international researchers has developed an innovative approach to uncover the secrets of dark matter in the cosmos. They are searching for dark matter using atomic ...

Today's encryption schemes will be vulnerable to future quantum computers, but new algorithms and a quantum internet could help.

Feb. 4, 2025 — Using data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, scientists have found a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf. This is the first time a planet has been uniquely discovered by ...

An open-source machine learning framework for global analyses of parton distributions.

Theoretical physics is the development of mathematical formalisms and computational protocols for describing all aspects of objects found in the world around us and their interaction. This can ...

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