The UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council’s (STFC) Hartree Centre has launched a supercomputer designed to help UK industry accelerate innovation through artificial intelligence and advanced ...

The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) has deployed a 24.41 petaflops AI supercomputer at its Hartree Centre in Daresbury, UK. Housed within the STFC’s new £30 million ($40m) ...

Detected by Boston College researchers, the axial Higgs mode, and materials that contain it, could support quantum sensors to help answer persistent questions in particle physics The previously ...

Particle physics is the study of the elementary building blocks of matter and radiation and their interaction. The fundamental particles are summarised by the standard model. This includes leptons ...

Experimental particle physics is the practical investigation of the fundamental components of matter and radiation. A crucial tool in the arsenal of the experimental particle physicist is the particle ...

A fragment of waste found near Dounreay in April was the most radioactive to be detected in the last three years, the Highland nuclear site's operator has said. Sand-sized particles of irradiated ...

How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, three scientists formulate a new model: according to this, inflation, the ...

When a material is heated or cooled, two changes may happen to the particles within the material: The number of particles does not change during a change of state, only their spacing and arrangement.