A new theory-based approach provides access to the minute transverse motion of quarks within protons. Nuclear physicists have developed a new theoretical framework that allows them to calculate a ...

Scientists at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a user facility for nuclear physics research operated by the U.S.

In September 2024, physicists made a discovery at CERN that could change how we understand the universe. For the first time, ...

In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called ...

In this video, we explore the existence of neutrons and their transformation into protons. We discuss why free neutrons are ...

The experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) detect rare events on a daily basis, but some are exceptionally rare, such ...

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From Fundamental Concepts to Dynamical Mechanisms, by Wolfgang Bietenholz and Uwe-Jens Wiese, Cambridge University Press.

Between 29 June and 9 July 2025, LHC physicists pushed the study of the quark–gluon plasma into new territory.

Physicists have taken the Universe’s temperature, revealing the searing trillion-degree heat of the Big Bang’s first plasma.

In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called ...

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