In its first moments, the infant universe was a trillion-degree-hot soup of quarks and gluons. These elementary particles ...

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

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The very first element on the Periodic Table may be the key to solving mysteries hiding inside the atom’s nucleus. Nuclear ...

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With this Science Table update, Anatomage is once again redefining what's possible in education. Much like how their virtual dissection table transformed medical education over a decade ago, the ...

Abstract illustration of a quantum double-slit experiment. Credit: ZME Science/Midjourney. MIT physicists have recreated the most iconic experiment in quantum physics — this time with individual atoms ...

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MIT physicists have performed an idealized version of one of the most famous experiments in quantum physics. Their findings demonstrate, with atomic-level precision, the dual yet evasive nature of ...

Light scattering has long stood as a cornerstone technique in the characterization of particles across a wide range of scientific disciplines. From pharmaceuticals to food production, and from ...

University of Oxford physicists have successfully created the first-ever real-time, three-dimensional simulations of a ‘bizarre’ phenomenon where three high-energy lasers intersecting in an empty ...