Scientific American18h
Who Will Build the Next Giant Particle Collider?
The European physics laboratory CERN is planning to build a mega collider by 2070. Critics say the plan could lead to ruin ...
The Debrief18h
High-Energy Neutrinos May Hint at New Physics—or New Civilizations
Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb discusses how scientists trace the cosmic journey of high-energy neutrinos from the Big Bang to ...
Might the proton decay in other places or at other times?
Does the proton decay? While this was a famous prediction of Grand Unified Theories (GUTS) developed in the 1970s and 1980s, ...
Scientific American1d
Supersymmetry Washes Out at the Large Hadron Collider
Supersymmetry, long considered the golden child of theoretical physics, has officially lost its luster at the world’s ...
New data keeps search for rare subatomic mystery going
The AMoRE experimental collaboration in South Korea has reported not finding evidence of neutrinoless double beta decay after ...
EurekAlert!2d
New precise calculation of nuclear beta decays paves the way to uncover physics beyond the standard model
Through the weak nuclear force, one quark flavor can transmute into another. However, current data and theory indicate that ...
IFLScience1mon
Protons' Internal Forces Are As Strong As The Weight Of 5 Schoolbuses
Protons sit in the nuclei of all atoms, but they are not fundamental particles: They are made of three quarks held together by the strong nuclear force. The strength of this interaction is ...
CERN Courier1d
Educational accelerator open to the public
What better way to communicate accelerator physics to the public than using a functioning particle accelerator?
Physics World1mon
World’s first patient treatments delivered with proton arc therapy
PAT pioneers The research team in the proton therapy gantry room. (Courtesy: UO Fisica Sanitaria and UO Protonterapia, APSS, Trento) A team at the Trento Proton Therapy Centre in Italy has delivered ...