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8 basic unanswered questions about the known particles
It’s 2024, and we still only know of the…
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Why reimagining the particle accelerator is so challenging
CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is the most…
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New particle at last! Physicists detect the first “glueball”
Glueballs are an unusual, unconfirmed…
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Can the known particles and interactions explain consciousness?
At a fundamental level, only a few…
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Particle physics finally charts a healthy path forward
A great many cosmic puzzles still remain…
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The surprising origins of wave-particle duality
Everything acts like a wave while it propagates, but…
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Dec 22, 2023
Ask Ethan: Do any particles not have antiparticles?
In our Universe, matter is made of particles…
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Dec 5, 2023
The simplest explanation for ultra-high-energy cosmic rays
The highest-energy particles could be a…
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Nov 30, 2023
What was it like when the Higgs gave particles mass?
In the very early Universe, practically all…
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Oct 19, 2023
How the surprising muon revolutionized particle physics
From unexplained tracks in a balloon-borne…
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