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March 17, 20262 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmA ‘charmed’ new particle is discovered at world’s largest atom smasherThe Large Hadron Collider just produced a…

Scientists at the Cern nuclear physics laboratory near Geneva have discovered a heavier version of the proton, the subatomic particle that sits at the heart of…

When the universe first burst into being, all of space was a cosmic cauldron filled with a roiling, fiery liquid of fundamental particles heated to trillions…

January 30, 20263 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmLost ancient Greek star catalog decoded by particle acceleratorSynchrotron radiation has revealed a star map made by…

November 15, 20252 min readScientists Measure the Temperature of the Universe Just after the Big BangQuark-gluon plasma, a bizarre state of matter that mimics the early…

Chen-Ning Yang, the Chinese American theoretical physicist, who has died aged 103, won the Nobel prize in physics in 1957.It was during a period at the…

September 3, 20254 min readWhat’s the Smallest Particle in the Universe?The answer to this supposedly simple particle physics question isn’t so simpleBy Gayoung Lee edited by…

The German physicist Herwig Schopper, who has died aged 101, was director general of Cern, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, from 1981 to 1988, overseeing…