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Gravity is one of the four fundamental forces that bind matter in the universe. The other three forces (electromagnetic, weak nuclear, and strong nuclear) are explained…
In experiments, elementary particles do not always behave according to theory. ATLAS Collaboration The puzzling behavior of a fundamental particle called the muon that some scientists…
A team of physicists at the University of California, Berkeley has developed the most sophisticated instrument ever designed to search for dark energy, the mysterious force…
Physicists from the ATLAS Collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN have announced the results of the most sensitive search to date for double…
Ryan Wills/istock/Amthitas When Seth Lloyd first pitched his idea for a quantum time loop, he didn’t consider all of the consequences. For one, he didn’t expect…
Physicist from CMS cooperation at CERN just published the combination of CMS measurements that helped establish the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012. CMS event…
Collider detector at Fermilab in Illinois prepares for more discoveries David Parker/Science Photo Library the strangeness of the universeHarry Cliff (Picador) A balloon the size of…
Have you found any traces of gravitons? zf L/Getty Images For decades, physicists have been searching for gravitons, the hypothetical particles thought to carry gravity. Although…
Officials at CERN, the world’s leading particle physics research institute, have announced plans to build the world’s largest particle accelerator. The machine is designed to smash…
An artist’s illustration of an extremely high-energy cosmic ray, named the “Amaterasu particle,” observed by the surface detector array of the Telescope Array experiment.Credit: Osaka Metropolitan…
