"It is always both a wave and a particle. It's just that we highlight one of the properties depending on which experiment we do." In day-to-day life, we mostly experience light as a wave, and it's ...

20 Nov 2024

Stanford professor Helen Quinn presented the Howard L. Schultz Sr. Price Lecture on the early days of the Standard Model and the theory of the axion.

19 Nov 2024

When studying the smallest particles that make up our world, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN is quite possibly the best place to do it. During an experiment called NA62, researchers were able to ...

21 Nov 2024

At 100, the impact of Bose-Einstein Statistics extends beyond physics to fields like cosmology and condensed matter science ...

20 Nov 2024

Scientists employ high-energy heavy ion collisions as a powerful tool to uncover intricate details of nuclear structure, offering insights with broad implications across various fields of physics. Sci ...

19 Nov 2024

The mines helped Indian scientists strike gold in particle physics as well. It’s where top physicists, like B.V. Sreekantan, Saburo Miyake, V.S. Narasimham, and P.V. Ramanamurthy, conducted some of ...

19 Nov 2024

Another popular method is to bombard nuclei with high-energy electrons, analysing the scattering data to infer structural details. However, this technique only reveals localized properties of the ...

19 Nov 2024

Carnegie Mellon physicists use AI to analyze large datasets from experiments, predict complex physical phenomena and optimize simulations.

15 Nov 2024

A significant portion of our universe is made up of a mysterious substance that remains unseen and untouchable: dark matter. Although invisible, the gravitational effects of ... Continue Reading → ...

17 Nov 2024

For decades, scientists have used the Milky Way as a model for understanding how galaxies form. But three new studies raise questions about whether the Milky Way is truly representative of other ...

20 Nov 2024

VolkVac Instruments makes lightweight UHV suitcases that are used to transport delicate samples long distances while under vacuum. It has teamed up with bi-metal and aluminium vacuum experts at Atlas ...

20 Nov 2024