Make a cloud chamber and watch fundamental particles zip through your living room! The scale of the detectors at the Large Hadron Collider is almost incomprehensible: They weigh thousands of tons, ...

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Scientists use long particle accelerators to move particles close to the speed of light, this testing probes the capabilities atomic and molecular structures. While most of the testing is done on long ...

Many of us will have experienced our pasta disintegrating into a beige mush – particularly for gluten-free alternatives. So ...

Teppei Katori was always amazed by the natural world—the birds, the flowers—right down to the invisible, "You can go all the way down to the quark and the lepton and I find that, wow, it's really ...

In 2012, particle accelerators hit the headlines when researchers at CERN announced the discovery of the Higgs boson. This breakthrough discovery resulted from decades of research and experimentation ...

An international team of particle physicists have paused their search for dark matter to focus on the needs of victims of the global pandemic — in particular, their need to breathe. In severe cases, ...