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The 2025 European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics took place in Marseille from 7 to 11 July.
Michael Riordan surveys the extraordinary year of 1964, which saw the birth of the quark model, the invention of the Higgs ...
Understanding the universe's building blocks, the Standard Model categorizes particles and explains forces, yet leaves ...
Might the universe we can observe be just half the tale, with a mirror universe moving in reverse through time filling out ...
UMass Amherst physicists believe such an explosion could occur within the next decade, potentially "revolutionizing physics ...
Launch: The Max Planck–IAS–NTU Center (MPC) was officially inaugurated on September 1, 2025, in Taipei, Taiwan. A highlight of the ceremony was the formal exchange of the agreement, signed by Claudia ...
Physicists have long believed that black holes explode at the end of their lives, and that such explosions happen—at ...
In a groundbreaking revelation, astronomers have substantiated that a perplexing “cold spot” in the cosmos could in fact be a ...
Recent progress on both analog and digital simulations of quantum fields foreshadows a future in which quantum computers ...
Once thought to be sailors’ myths, rogue waves gained credibility after a towering 80-foot wall of water struck the Draupner oil platform in 1995. New research shows that these extreme waves don’t ...
From plagiarism to planetary corrections, we take a look at Copernicus and the introduction of heliocentricity.