Experimental Physics

A quarkless supercollider may finally shed light on dark matter

The Leibniz Prize is awarded annually to scientists for their "outstanding achievements in the field of research."

With no conclusive laboratory results, researchers are turning to other methods to find the elusive substance

Have you ever wondered why some elements are rarer than others (like gold versus lead)? Maria Goeppert Mayer loved solving puzzles as a child, and she solved that one, too. She also discovered "magic numbers." These discoveries won her the Nobel Prize in physics in 1963, becoming the first American woman to do so.

Helen Edwards was a particle physicist who led the design and construction of the Tevatron, a machine built to probe deeper into the atom than anyone had gone before.

A new optical phenomenon has been demonstrated by an international team of scientists led by physicists at the University of Bath, with significant potential impact on pharmaceutical science, security, forensics, environmental science, art conservation and medicine.

Domain walls, long a divisive topic in physics, may be ideal explanations for some bizarre cosmic quirks

In Space Oddities, Harry Cliff explores the anomalous universe

Fuzziness may rule the quantum realm, but it can be manipulated to our advantage.

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN can be used to study many kinds of fundamental particles, including mysterious and rare tau particles. Oxygen/Moment via...

The Muon g-2 collaboration has announced their much-anticipated updated measurement. The new result aligns with the collaboration's first result, announced in 2021—and it's twice as precise. In fact, it's the most precise measurement ever made using a particle accelerator.

Physicists believe that an unknown force could be acting on sub-atomic particles known as muons.

From predicting the existence of black holes to being insulted by Einstein — J. Robert Oppenheimer led an intriguing life. Here are eight facts you didn't know about the father of the atomic bomb.

In light of recent UAP revelations, I decided to see if AI could help reverse-engineer, extrapolate, and propose a research program to determine how they work. Here is that conversation, abridged. Me: In context of UAP (unidentified aerial phenomena) describe the most recent event, whether of observation or investigation, in your training set? ChatGPT As of my last update in September 2021, the most recent…

In the world of computing, we typically think of information as being stored as ones and zeros—also known as binary encoding. However, in our daily life we use ten digits to represent all possible numbers. In binary the number 9 is written as 1001 for example, requiring three additional digits to represent the same thing.

Diamond material is of great importance for future technologies such as the quantum internet. Special defect centers can be used as quantum bits (qubits) and emit single light particles that are referred to as single photons.

A slow-motion movie on sports television channels shows processes in hundredths of a second. By contrast, processes on the nanoscale take place in the so-called femtosecond range: For example, an electron needs only billionths of a second to orbit a hydrogen atom.

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Modern science progresses with an intensity and even irrationality that Aristotle could not fathom.

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