The 12-metre-diameter acrylic vessel surrounded by 9,000 photomultiplier tubes at the heart of the the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory and SNO+ experiments (SNOLAB) The name is given to neutrinos, which ...

The mysterious interstellar object that's been flying through the solar system may be leaving behind the building blocks of life on our neighboring worlds. Scans of 3I/ATLAS have revealed two key ...

Indoor air quality has become an urgent concern in recent times, as we spend a considerable amount of time inside our home. Advances in measurement technologies have revealed that small, otherwise ...

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In a rare global collaboration, scientists from Japan and the United States joined forces to explore one of the universe’s deepest mysteries — why anything exists at all. By combining years of data ...

Dipangkar Dutta receives funding from US Dept. of Energy and NSF. A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of subatomic particles. What ...

Tiny solid particles — like pollutants, cloud droplets and medicine powders — form highly concentrated clusters in turbulent environments like smokestacks, clouds and pharmaceutical mixers. What ...

What if particles don't slow down in a crowd, but move faster? Physicists from Leiden worked together and discovered a new state of matter, where particles pass on energy through collisions and create ...

Abstract: This work introduces an advanced technique optimized for detecting photons generated by charged particles, leveraging Skipper charge coupled device (Skipper-CCD) image sensors. By analyzing ...

Smashing atomic nuclei together at mind-bending speeds recreates the fiery conditions of the early universe and scientists are finally getting a better handle on what happens next. A sweeping new ...

The particles that are in an atom: protons, neutrons and electrons The particles that are in protons and neutrons: quarks The four fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetism, the strong force and ...