Scientists have used ultracold atoms to successfully demonstrate a novel method of particle acceleration that could unlock a new understanding of how cosmic rays behave, a new study reveals.

Caltech scientists have found a fast and efficient way to add up large numbers of Feynman diagrams, the simple drawings ...

The Palimpsest, a writing of Archimedes once thought lost to history, has been revealed through the advanced use of a ...

Europe is gearing up to revolutionize the study of the Universe with a colossal project spearheaded by the CERN laboratory. Plans are underway to build a new particle accelerator, the Future Circular ...

His idea was simple: by bombarding the manuscript with X-ray photons fired at close to the speed of light using a particle ...

An invisible force has long eluded detection within the halls of the world’s most famous particle accelerator—until now.

Conventional accelerators use oscillating electric fields to drive charged particles to relativistic speeds. The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, for example, uses radio-frequency oscillations to ...

The photoelectric effect, first explained in 1905, transformed our understanding of how light interacts with matter. When ...

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The anomalies, which can’t be explained by known particle-based signals, have baffled scientists.