2023's Nobel Prize was awarded for studying physics on tiny, attosecond-level timescales. Too bad that particle physics happens even faster.
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The neutrino is the most ghostly, rarely-interacting particle in all the Standard Model. How well can we truly make "beams" out of them?
One single plot of data embodies the most profound thing we know about the stars.
The combination of charge conjugation, parity, and time-reversal symmetry is known as CPT. And it must never be broken. Ever.
The Standard Model of elementary particles has three nearly identical copies of particles: generations. And nobody knows why.
These composers channeled the horror of the Holocaust and Hiroshima while honoring those who lived through it.
For centuries, men prevented women from writing music. These classical composers broke with social norms and made their mark on history.
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The Standard Model may or may not be in trouble, but particle physics definitely needs saving. Here's what the new LHC can do.
This world map shows how the rest of the world LOLs. In France, you MDR; in China, you 23333.
Even if we traveled at the speed of light, we'd never catch up to these galaxies.
The great hope is that beyond the indirect, astrophysical evidence we have today, we'll someday detect it directly. But what if we can't?
A study reports that people think those with similar personality traits look alike and vice versa.
The laws of physics obey certain symmetries and defy others. It's theoretically tempting to add new ones, but reality doesn't agree.
From wearable electronics to microscopic sensors to telemedicine, new advances like graphene and supercapacitors are bringing "impossible" electronics to life.
Individual space telescopes, like Hubble and JWST, revolutionized our knowledge of the Universe. What if we had an array of them, instead?
They are expected to be cheaper to build and even more reliable than today’s nuclear plants.
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Women have made incredible gains into STEM fields, but they continue to face gender biases in the workplace.
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Neutrons can be stable when bound into an atomic nucleus, but free neutrons decay away in mere minutes. So how are neutron stars stable?
We value human life in a way that assumes we possess a sacred something not found in beings like lambs, turkeys, or mosquitoes.
Until recently, we were only able to view Venus's surface with radar or by landing on the planet. It was believed that Venus's surface was entirely obscured by clouds; NASA's Parker Solar Probe proved otherwise.
The way to understand the earliest moments of creation is to recreate those conditions and study them. Why would we stop now?