Our universe plays by certain rules, which originate from different branches of physics. But sometimes the rules seem ...

In high-intensity laser–matter interactions, including laser-induced particle acceleration, physicists generally want to work ...

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"WIMPs are still the leading candidate for dark matter, but billions of dollars of experiments have been done, only getting ...

New device could be used to observe structures as small as individual proteins, as well as the environment in which they move ...

A breakthrough experiment in the quantum world shows photons in 37 dimensions, revealing reality beyond classical physics.

Proton collisions at the LHC appear wildly chaotic, but new data reveal a surprising underlying order. The findings confirm that a basic rule of quantum mechanics holds true even in extreme particle ...

Scientists say Earth’s magnetic field may have funneled atmospheric particles to the moon for billions of years. Lunar soil could preserve a record of Earth’s past while providing resources for future ...

Argonne National Laboratory announced it has successfully deployed and is running a 12-qubit quantum dot device built by Intel, with the first collaborative work published in Nature Communications. - ...

Researchers uncover geometric principles governing how particles self-assemble, solving a long-standing challenge in ...