A particle accelerator that produces intense X-rays could be squeezed into a device that fits on a table, my colleagues and I ...

Quark-gluon plasma, a bizarre state of matter that mimics the early cosmos, is the hottest thing ever made on Earth ...

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Forget about turtles; for all practical purposes, it’s really particles all the way down. Consider the seemingly simple matter of their size, the very thing that makes them so alien. We’re typically ...

Particle Network simplifies cross-chain transactions through Universal Accounts, Universal Liquidity, and Universal Gas, enhancing the Web3 user experience. Founded in 2022 and backed by $25 million ...

School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210094, China ...

In February of 2023, the Cubic Kilometer Neutrino Telescope (KM3NeT) detected a neutrino some 35 times higher in energy than any previous detection. A new study posits that this muon might be the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. On a quiet pandemic afternoon in 2021, Zhiyuan Wang, then a graduate student at Rice University, was alleviating his boredom by working ...

Does light behave more like a particle, or like a wave? Today we know the surprising answer. Here's why it took so long to get there. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

From a couple of former Twitter product leaders comes a new — and in some ways very old — way of thinking about the news. From a couple of former Twitter product leaders comes a new — and in some ways ...