Never Been Done Before – A New Way To Study Quarks
Scientists are investigating how matter gets its mass by confining quarks. A novel method for investigating quarks, the fundamental particles that make up the protons…
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U.S. RHIC Atom Smasher Reveals a Surprising Preference in Particle Spin Alignment
Findings may point to a previously unknown influence of the strong force—and a way to measure its local fluctuations. Given the choice of three different…
For the First Time: Scientists Have Formed a Charged Rare Earth Molecule on a Metal Surface and Rotated It
For the first time, scientists formed a charged rare earth molecule on a metal surface and rotated it using scanning tunneling microscopy. Scientists from Ohio…
Physicists Baffled by Proton Structure Anomaly
Precision measurement of how a proton’s structure deforms in an electric field has revealed new details about an unexplained spike in proton data. Nuclear physicists…
Nuclear Physics: How Stiff Is the Proton?
The proton is a nuclear particle with a positive electric charge located in the nucleus of an atom. It is a composite particle made up…
New Tool Uses Gravitational Waves to Peer Inside Neutron Stars
Imagine taking a star with twice the mass of the Sun and crushing it down to the size of Manhattan. The result would be a…
Mysteries of the Universe Revealed Under the Skin of an Atomic Nucleus
Massive neutron stars colliding in space are believed to be able to create precious metals such as gold and platinum. Although the properties of these…
World’s Most Powerful Supercomputer Reveals Carbon-12 Origin Story – A Building Block for Life
With the help of the world’s most powerful supercomputer and new artificial intelligence techniques, an international team of scientists has theorized how the extreme conditions…
“Visualizing the Proton” – Physicists’ Innovative Animation Depicts the Subatomic World in a New Way
An art-science collaboration tests the limits of visual technologies. Try to picture a proton — the tiny, positively charged particle within an atomic nucleus —…
Science Made Simple: What is Ultrafast Science?
Ultrafast science is the study of processes in atoms, molecules, or materials that occur in millionths of a billionth of a second or faster. This…
New Pumpkin-Shaped Atomic Nucleus Radiates Protons at Record-Setting Rate
A new atomic nucleus 149-Lutetium, consisting of 71 protons and 78 neutrons, has been synthesized in an experiment performed in the Accelerator Laboratory of University…
Particle Physics Breakthrough: Scientists Report First-of-Its-Kind Neutrino Measurement
For the first time, physicists extracted the detailed “energy-dependent neutrino-argon interaction cross section,” a key value for studying how neutrinos change their flavor Physicists studying…
Superheavy Elements: Nuclear Physicist’s Voyage Towards a Mythical Island
Theories were introduced as far back as the 1960s about the possible existence of superheavy elements. Their most long-lived nuclei could give rise to a…
Physics Surprise: Protons Are Probably Actually Smaller Than Long Thought
Study by the University of Bonn and the TU Darmstadt suggests errors in the interpretation of older measurements. A few years ago, a novel measurement…
A Crunching Multiverse To Solve Two Fundamental Physics Puzzles at Once
A duo of theorists proposes a new theory to explain both the surprisingly small mass of the Higgs boson and the puzzling symmetry properties of…
Large Hadron Collider: New Insight Into the Internal Structure of the Proton
While the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is well known for smashing protons together, it is actually the quarks and gluons inside the protons – collectively…
Super-Resolution Imaging of a Single Cold Atom on a Nanosecond Timescale
The team of academician GUO Guangcan of University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has made important progress…
Scientists Create a Record-Setting Isotope of Magnesium That’s Never Been Seen Before
Spartans joined an international team to create an isotope of magnesium that’s never been seen before. In collaboration with an international team of researchers, Michigan…
