physics
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Physicists Detect Neutrinos for First Time Ever Using Large Hadron Collider
Last week, a team of physicists working in CERN’s Large Hadron Collider announced the facility’s first-ever detection of neutrinos, which are some of the smallest, most weakly interacting particles yet proven to exist.
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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.…
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Young Physicists Are Shaping the Next Generation of Discoveries
This autumn, a global collaboration of scientists released a measurement that had the potential to turn physics’ most important theory on its head. The number they revealed described the behaviour of a subatomic particle known as the muon, and the big question was whether the measurement would fit with the predictions of the Standard Model…
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Physicists Get a Good Look at an ‘Exciton’ for the First Time
After nearly a century of probing the nature of tiny, ephemeral objects called excitons, researchers finally managed to image the structure, hinting at the true location of an electron. The findings could eventually help physicists create new states of matter or new quantum technologies.