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China’s decision to halt work on what was meant to be the world’s largest particle accelerator has reshaped the global race ...

Discover how continuous particle flux measurements are paving the way for energy solutions in India's digital landscape.

One of the great successes of 20th-century physics was the quantum mechanical description of solids. This allowed scientists ...

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Advanced quantum detectors designed at Texas A&M University are reinventing the search for dark matter, an unseen force that ...

China's artificial sun breaks density limit that caused fusion experiments to fail, moving closer to clean energy.

Recently, another reactor in France reported a major tungsten breakthrough: its toroidal tokamak, clad in tungsten, ...

UW-Madison is once again inviting the public to experience science in action with its popular Wonders of Physics shows, a ...

Inside high-energy proton collisions, quarks and gluons briefly form a dense, boiling state before cooling into ordinary ...

Almost exactly 200 years ago, French physicist Sadi Carnot determined the maximum efficiency of heat engines. The Carnot ...

The Large Hadron Collider will be shut down, paving the way for a major upgrade, and perhaps its eventual, even bigger ...