These two properties of axions mean that they are exceptionally good at collapsing down to incredibly high densities, pulled ...

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The science that was repulsive to an idea of religious belief thus began to embrace religious ideas culminating with the discovery of the Higgs boson or ‘God particle’, completing the stan­­-dard ...

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Finding patterns and reducing noise in large, complex datasets generated by the gravitational wave-detecting LIGO facility ...

In their new book, From Spinors to Supersymmetry, Herbi Dreiner, Howard Haber and Stephen Martin describe the two-component ...

Philip Ball looks at how a little-known paper by Niels Bohr demonstrates the turmoil in physics on the brink of quantum ...

What exists at the core of a black hole? A research team led by Enrico Rinaldi, a physicist at the University of Michigan, ...

Quantum field theory holds that particles and ... According to the Standard Model, for each type of particle that makes up "ordinary" matter, there's a corresponding antiparticle equal in all ...

Researchers from Kyushu University, Japan have revealed how a special type of force within an atom’s nucleus, known as the three-nucleon force, impacts nuclear stability. The study, published in ...

By employing a new and improved supercollider, scientists are hoping to dissect the very fabric of the Universe and calculate ...

Skyrmions are nanometer- to micrometer-sized magnetic whirls that exhibit particle-like properties and can be moved ...