Particle Physics

  1. Particle Physics

    Large Hadron Collider starts its 2016 physics run

    Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider are taking data for the first time in 2016.

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  2. Particle Physics

    Readers ponder gravity wave physics

    Gravitational waves, the benefits of fat and more reader feedback.

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  3. Particle Physics

    A weasel has shut down the Large Hadron Collider

    A tiny furball brought Earth’s most powerful particle accelerator to its knees this morning.

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  4. Particle Physics

    Theorists perplexed by hints of unexpected new particle

    Hints of a potential new particle at the LHC have scientists excited, and theoretical physicists are beginning to converge on explanations.

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  5. Astronomy

    Possible source of high-energy neutrino reported

    Scientists may have found the cosmic birthplace of an ultra-high energy neutrino: a blazar 9 billion light years away.

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  6. Particle Physics

    Reactor data hint at existence of fourth neutrino

    A nuclear reactor experiment in China is providing new hints that a fourth type of neutrino, one more than the standard model of physics allows, may exist.

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  7. Particle Physics

    Physicists find signs of four-neutron nucleus

    Strong evidence of a tetraneutron, an atomic nucleus with four neutrons but no protons, defies physicists’ theoretical expectations.

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  8. Particle Physics

    Entanglement is spooky, but not action at a distance

    Recent experiments on quantum entanglement confirm that it’s spooky, but it was not, as Einstein implied, action at a distance.

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  9. Particle Physics

    Quantum spookiness survives its toughest tests

    Recent experiments on quantum entanglement confirm that it’s spooky, but it was not, as Einstein implied, action at a distance.

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  10. Physics

    Early quark estimates not entirely realized

    Decades of research have shed a little light on quarks, the mysterious building blocks of atoms.

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  11. Science & Society

    Climate, new physics and Jupiter on the horizon for 2016

    The first issue of the new year features stories about what will, editor in chief Eva Emerson predicts, hold on as scientific newsmakers during 2016.

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  12. Particle Physics

    Dark matter helped destroy the dinosaurs, physicist posits

    In ‘Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs,’ Lisa Randall finds connections between particle physics, cosmology, geology and paleontology.

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