3D printing enables large-scale plastic scintillator detectors for particle physics
An international collaboration headed by researchers in the Department of Physics has shown that additive manufacturing ...
Looking for a powerful particle accelerator? There’s one near earth
Researchers discover collisionless shock waves as cosmic engines accelerating subatomic particles in space to extreme speeds.
The Universe Is Hiding Something Huge – And Scientists Are Closer Than Ever to Finding It
Scientists searching for dark matter have made groundbreaking progress using new infrared spectrographic technology and the ...
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Roland Winston, pioneer in solar energy, engineering and physics, 1936–2025
Roland Winston, SB’56, SM’57, PhD’63—a pioneer in solar energy, engineering, and physics—died Feb. 8 at his home in ...
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Building bridges in physics
Researchers show that Cartan's First Structure Equation, which relates to edge and screw dislocations in crystal lattices, can be recast in the same form as a basic mathematical formula that governs ...
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Latest special coin to be issued: CERN silver coin brings research within reach
Bern, 11.03.2025 - The new CERN special coin from Swissmint combines Swiss precision with cutting-edge research: the 20-franc silver coin honours scientific progress in Switzerland and showcases one ...
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University of Sussex visits CERN
Last week, Professor Michael Luck, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost, and Professor Luc Moreau, Executive Dean of the ...
An unexpected connection between the equations for crystalline lattice defects and electromagnetism
A fundamental goal of physics is to explain the broadest range of phenomena with the fewest underlying principles. Remarkably ...
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Physicist Claims Gravity Might Emerge From Entropy. Could This Unite Quantum Mechanics and Gravity?
In their quest to understand the fundamental forces of the universe, scientists have gotten stuck on gravity. While the other ...
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Maxwell was more than 40 years ahead of Einstein – the equation that could reveal the true origin of photons and change our understanding of light
Albert Einstein shook up physics by proposing that light wasn’t just a wave, but it could also behave like a collection of ...
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Colliding with nature's best-kept secrets
(CNN)-- Visiting a particle accelerator is like a religious experience, at least for Nima Arkani-Hamed. Immense detectors surround the areas where inconceivably small particles slam into one another ...