The small but ubiquitous proton serves as a foundation for the bulk of the visible matter in the universe. It abides at the very heart of matter, giving rise to everything we see around us as it ...
On this week's episode of Quirks & Quarks with Bob McDonald: Every summer, Canadian scientists leave their labs and classrooms and fan out across the planet to do research in the field. This week, ...
A stereotypical image of a scientist is someone in a white lab coat peering into a microscope in a laboratory full of test tubes and exotic equipment. While lab work is an important element of ...
Recent progress in both analog and digital quantum simulations heralds a future in which quantum computers could simulate — and thereby illuminate — physical phenomena that are far too complex for ...
Forget about turtles; for all practical purposes, it’s really particles all the way down. Consider the seemingly simple matter of their size, the very thing that makes them so alien. We’re typically ...
We know very little about the first few microseconds after the Big Bang. We have theories, most of which we’re still double- and triple-checking to see if they actually make scientific sense. The ...
The Higgs boson gives particles mass, but its links to the lighter quarks are still largely untested. CMS has now hunted for Higgs decays to charm quarks in rare events produced with top-quark pairs, ...
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