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particle physics
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Scientists propose using magnets to ‘hear’ spacetime
Scientists have demonstrated how magnets from dark matter experiments can also serve as detectors for high-frequency gravitational waves, potentially revealing a new spectrum of cosmic signals.
July 8, 2025
Is the Universe a Fluke? The Problem of Fine-Tuning
Modern physics grapples with why the universe's fundamental constants appear "fine-tuned" for existence, suggesting either a radical new theory or the reality of a multiverse.
July 5, 2025
Why Physicists Built an Experiment the Size of a Sea
Deep beneath the Mediterranean, a massive neutrino detector has captured a particle so energetic it could rewrite our fundamental understanding of the cosmos.
July 5, 2025
New research casts doubt on ‘impossible’ signals from Antarctica
After a dedicated search found no evidence of exotic particles traveling through the planet, the mystery of Antarctica's "impossible" signals only deepens.
June 23, 2025
What If Reality Isn’t Built from the Bottom Up?
A mysterious 17-order-of-magnitude gap at the foundation of reality challenges our most fundamental scientific principle: that big things are simply the sum of their smaller parts.
June 21, 2025
How physicists used antimatter, supercomputers and giant magnets to solve a 20-year-old mystery
Cindy Arnold, Fermilab Finn Stokes, University of Adelaide Physicists are always searching for new theories to improve our…
June 5, 2025
What an Electron Truly Looks Like
While traditionally visualized as a tiny ball, quantum mechanics describes electrons as fuzzy wave functions, with properties like…
January 10, 2025
The (Actual) Truth About CERN
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a massive underground science experiment located on the border between France and…
May 4, 2024
Peter Higgs was one of the greats of particle physics. He transformed what we know about the building blocks of the universe
Harald Fox, Lancaster University Peter Higgs, who gave his name to the subatomic particle known as the Higgs…
April 16, 2024
How Do You Find the Average of Everything?
Finding the “average” of a set of numbers is easy enough to some people, but how do you…
October 8, 2023
