nuclear physics
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Physicists Just Learned Something Major About the Proton
Physics at the smallest scales is a challenge of observation: Particles are often fleeting, and the forces that govern their behaviour are nearly imperceptible. But now, by exploiting decades-old data and a 50-year-old prediction about gravity’s import on subatomic particles, a team of physicists has teased out a measurement for a second mechanical property in…
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Large Hadron Collider Physicists Discover Three New Exotic Particles
Physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider announced today the discovery of three exotic particles that may help reveal how quarks bind together.
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Could Someone Please Help the Biden Administration Store All This Nuclear Waste?
The federal government has restarted a search for towns that will volunteer to be temporary homes for thousands of tons of nuclear waste.
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When Will Force Shields Be Real?
When the aliens come for our organs, the tides for our coastal cities, the supervillains for their own nihilist world-obliterating amusement, how exactly will we protect ourselves? From decades of sci-fi, the answer is clear: some kind of force shield arrangement. If you’re trying to deflect bullets, impress small children, and/or save a major U.S.…