Inside high-energy proton collisions, quarks and gluons briefly form a dense, boiling state before cooling into ordinary particles. Researchers expected this transition to change how disordered the ...

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A Michigan State University researcher has helped lead a groundbreaking collaboration that could bring scientists closer to understanding how the universe came to be. For the first time, two of the ...

A green spectacle. With protective eyewear, ISTA PHD student Andrea Stöllner takes a glimpse into the experimental chamber (in the foreground) where two laser beams trap a single particle. One ...

The LPGA's qualifying tour has teamed up with Trackman for an all new, all virtual competition for women. Women's golf is going digital and not in the TGL way—but sort of. This week the LPGA Tour's ...

Hawking radiation suggests that black holes are not completely black but emit faint radiation and decay over time. The idea involves virtual particles that spontaneously appear and disappear due to ...

For decades, scientists have known that neutrinos—often called “ghost particles” for their near-massless, almost undetectable nature—defy easy explanation. Trillions of them stream through your body ...

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A number of experiments have been proposed to generate and witness gravitational entanglement, but Aziz and Howl’s work suggests that the presence of gravitational entanglement is not a ‘smoking gun’ ...

A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of subatomic particles. What happens to these particles within atoms would stay unexplained ...

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