A rather unassuming particle is playing an important role in the hunt for subatomic oddities. Similar to protons and neutrons, mesons are composed of quarks bound together by the strong nuclear force.

TAU Systems, the developer of next-generation ultrafast laser-plasma accelerators, today announced the collaboration with ...

CERN physicists observed matter-antimatter imbalance in a baryon. Antiparticles possess the same mass as matter but opposite ...

Following years of relentless advocacy for the Capital Region, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer helped cut the ...

U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer inaugurated the nation's first National Semiconductor Technology Center (NSTC) at Albany Nanotech, ...

A school gym-sized facility tucked away at the University of Michigan is quietly pushing the boundaries of what lasers can do ...

New developments tackle two of the biggest challenges in plasma-wave acceleration: beam quality and bunch rate.

Fritz Ferger, a multi-talented engineer who had a significant impact on the technical development and management of CERN, passed away on 22 March 2025.

Knowable Magazine reports on attosecond science, revealing how scientists study atomic interactions at unbelievable speeds to ...

An attosecond—or 0.000000000000000001 second—is no time at all for a person. That is not so for electrons, atoms and molecules, and laser-wielding scientists are revealing the action ...

Silver-110’s decay reveals a promising path to measure antineutrino mass. New data could reshape future neutrino studies. Neutrinos and antineutrinos are fundamental particles that possess mass, ...

The camera, now bolted to the end of a giant telescope at the Rubin Observatory, is expected to shoot photos of 20 billion galaxies, to be stitched together in broad panoramas giving astronomers ...