A team of scientists has detected the presence of a high-energy neutrino — a particularly elusive particle — in the wake of a star’s destruction…
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A composite image of a galaxy cluster formed from the collision of two large clusters of galaxies. Hot X-ray emitting gas is shown in pink…
Precise synchronization of X-ray and external laser pulses is a major hurdle in analyzing data from XFEL experiments. Researchers took advantage of timing differences between…
A novel state of matter has been discovered by physicists at the University of Leicester. In recent years, active, self-propelled particles have received growing interest…
An artist’s depiction of the inner workings of the HAYSTAC experiment. Credit: Steven Burrows For nearly a century, scientists have worked to unravel the mystery…
On the left is a simulated image in which intracluster light is visible as a diffuse haze between discrete peaks of brightness — the galaxies.…
Theoretical physicists of the PRISMA+ Cluster of Excellence at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) are working on a theory that goes beyond the Standard Model of…
The trajectory of a positively charged ion (yellow) through the BEC (green) can only be visualized artistically yet. The ion microscope, which is already being…
An MIT-led search for axions from nearby star Betelgeuse (pictured here) came up empty, significantly narrowing the search for hypothetical dark matter particle. Credit: Collage…
Electron beamlets as observed on YAG screens at varying distances from a cathode source. Credit: Argonne National Laboratory Beam-driven wakefield acceleration approaches are promising candidates…
An artistic rendering of the XMM-Newton (X-ray multi-mirror mission) space telescope. A study of archival data from the XMM-Newton and the Chandra X-ray space telescopes…
At the University of Notre Dame, part of the Oak Ridge Deuterated Spectroscopic Array measured a reaction that causes noise in some neutrino detectors. Credit:…
A team led by Princeton physicists discovered a surprising quantum phenomenon in an atomically thin insulator made of tungsten ditelluride. The results suggest the formation…
An image of the debris left over after the creation of a quark-gluon plasma in the collision of two nuclei at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Credit:…
Scientific articles in the field of physics are mostly very short and deal with a very restricted topic. A remarkable exception to this is an…
Artist impression: Six pairs of atoms in the focus of a laser beam. Credit: Jonas Ahlstedt / Lund University Bioimaging Centre (LBIC) Phase transitions describe…
In the 1970s, physicists uncovered a problem with the Standard Model of particle physics—the theory that describes three of the four fundamental forces of nature…
Aging quantum dots. Credit: Daria Sokol/MIPT Press Office Researchers from MIPT and the RAS Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics have proposed a simple and…
The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) is a general-purpose detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It has a broad physics program ranging from studying the…