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Radiofrequency upgrades ensure accelerator stability and reliability
Running a synchrotron light source is a massive team effort that brings hundreds of highly skilled and specialized professionals together. The radiofrequency (RF) group at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), ...
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Using soccer balls to refine computational fluid dynamics research methods
If you're a soccer fan, you're familiar with this common sight: A penalty kick is in place, with a "wall" of defenders lined up in front of the goal, ready to leap to try to block the ball if it sails overhead.
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Dec 10, 2025
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Study links vanishing of specific heats at absolute zero with principle of entropy increase
In a new publication, Professor José-María Martín-Olalla, from the Department of Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Seville, has described the direct link between the vanishing of specific heats at absolute ...
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Dec 10, 2025
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LHC delivers a record number of particle collisions in 2025
All experiments broke records in the final full operating year of the third run of the LHC.
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Dec 10, 2025
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ALICE solves mystery of light-nuclei survival
Observations of the formation of light-nuclei from high-energy collisions may help in the hunt for dark matter.
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Dec 10, 2025
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The rhythm of swarms: Tunable particles synchronize movement like living organisms
A collaboration between the University of Konstanz and Forschungszentrum Jülich has achieved the first fully tunable experimental realization of a long predicted "swarmalator" system. The study, published in Nature Communications, ...
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Dec 10, 2025
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An old jeweler's trick could unlock next-generation nuclear clocks
In 2008, a team of UCLA-led scientists proposed a scheme to use a laser to excite the nucleus of thorium atoms to realize extremely accurate, portable clocks. Last year, they realized this longstanding goal by bombarding ...
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Dec 10, 2025
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Quantum clues to consciousness: New research suggests the brain may harness the zero-point field
What if your conscious experiences were not just the chatter of neurons, but were connected to the hum of the universe? In a paper published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, I present new evidence indicating that conscious ...
Neutrino observatories show promise for detecting light dark matter
Dark matter is an elusive type of matter that does not emit, reflect or absorb light, yet is estimated to account for most of the universe's mass. Over the past decades, many physicists worldwide have been trying to detect ...
Ghostly solar neutrinos caught transforming carbon atoms deep underground
Neutrinos are one of the most mysterious particles in the universe, often called "ghost particles" because they rarely interact with anything else. Trillions stream through our bodies every second, yet leave no trace. They ...
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Dec 10, 2025
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CERN upbeat as China halts particle accelerator mega-project
The chief of the CERN physics laboratory says China's decision to pause its major particle accelerator project presents an "opportunity" to ensure Europe's rival plan goes ahead.
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Dec 9, 2025
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A new nuclear 'island' where magic numbers break down
For decades, nuclear physicists believed that "Islands of Inversion"—regions where the normal rules of nuclear structure suddenly break down—were found mostly in neutron-rich isotopes. In these unusual pockets of the ...
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Dec 8, 2025
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Probing the existence of a fifth force via neutron star cooling
Neutron stars are ultra-dense star remnants made up primarily of nucleons (i.e., protons and neutrons). Over the course of millions of years, these stars progressively cool down, radiating heat into space.
LHC data confirm validity of new model of hadron production—and test foundations of quantum mechanics
A boiling sea of quarks and gluons, including virtual ones—this is how we can imagine the main phase of high-energy proton collisions. It would seem that particles here have significantly more opportunities to evolve than ...
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Dec 4, 2025
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CERN's ATLAS detects evidence for decay of Higgs boson into muon–antimuon pair
Although its existence had been theorized for decades, the Higgs boson was finally observed to exist in 2012 at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Since then, it has continued to be heavily studied at the LHC. Now, ...
Deciphering the heavyweights of the tetraquark world
The CMS collaboration reports the first measurement of the quantum properties of a family of tetraquarks that was recently discovered at the LHC.
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Dec 3, 2025
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Scientists rule out fourth neutrino in particle physics mystery
Scientists have taken a major step toward solving a long-standing mystery in particle physics, by finding no sign of the particle many hoped would explain it.
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Dec 3, 2025
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Pinning down spinless glueballs: New look at hidden structure inside subatomic particles
SUNY Poly Professor of Physics Dr. Amir Fariborz recently published a paper in Physical Review D titled "Spinless glueballs in generalized linear sigma model." The work takes on a central challenge in modern physics: understanding ...
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Dec 3, 2025
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Tightening the net around the elusive sterile neutrino
Neutrinos, though nearly invisible, are among the most numerous matter particles in the universe. The Standard Model recognizes three types, but the discovery of neutrino oscillations revealed they have mass and can change ...
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Dec 3, 2025
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Long-standing puzzle in electron scattering deepens with new measurement
Why does lead behave so differently from every other atomic nucleus when struck by electrons? A team of physicists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has taken an important step toward answering this question, only ...
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Dec 3, 2025
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