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Physicists have successfully trapped a single antimatter particle for an entire month, opening the door to solving one of the universe's biggest mysteries. The achievement could finally explain why our universe is made of matter instead of antimatter.
Deep in a Chinese mountain, researchers at a new underground observatory are hunting neutrinos, ghostly particles that might finally explain why our universe exists. The experiment could solve one of physics' biggest mysteries and reveal what's missing from our understanding of reality.
Physicists at the University of Innsbruck just confirmed a quantum mystery nearly a century old by freezing atoms into "necklaces" and watching them behave exactly as predicted in 1931. The breakthrough helps unlock how countless particles interact in everything from magnets to computer chips.
Physicists at CERN captured the first clear evidence that the universe's earliest matter behaves like a liquid, watching individual quarks create ripples and wakes as they speed through primordial plasma. This breakthrough reveals how the universe's first moments looked more like a cosmic ocean than anyone imagined.
Mexico will build a major particle detector for CERN's Large Hadron Collider, marking the first time a Mexican scientist will lead a strategic subsystem for the world-renowned physics facility. The device will help scientists understand the universe's first moments after the Big Bang.
Scientists at CERN just figured out how to recreate the universe's first moments using much smaller atomic collisions than ever before. This breakthrough helps us understand how everything around us came to exist.
Six high school students from across India cold-emailed an MIT physics grad student for help. Now they're conducting particle physics research that could advance one of the world's largest neutrino experiments.
A puzzle that stumped physicists for three decades just got solved, and it turns out those "missing" neutrinos were never missing at all. New research shows the gallium anomaly was based on a measurement misunderstanding, not mysterious new physics.
Scientists at Fermilab are using artificial intelligence to fine-tune particle accelerators, potentially saving millions in operating costs while accelerating breakthrough discoveries about our universe. The project could reshape how scientists conduct cutting-edge physics research.
After nearly 50 years of searching, scientists in Beijing have discovered strong evidence for a "glueball," an exotic particle made entirely of force instead of matter. This breakthrough confirms a major prediction about how the universe works at its smallest scale.
After 50 years of uncertainty, physicists have found strong evidence that the glue holding matter together works differently than we thought. The discovery could help explain why our universe exists at all.
Chinese physicists have spotted what could be the first glueball, a bizarre particle predicted by physics but never confirmed until now. This discovery validates decades of theoretical work about how the universe's strongest force operates.