As the carriers of the weak force, the W and Z bosons are central to the Standard Model of particle...
When atoms collide, their exact structure—for example, the number of electrons they have or even the quantum spin of their...
Galaxies, planets, black holes: to most people, everything about our Universe sounds and feels enormous. But while it’s true that...
One of the tiniest building blocks of the universe has a weigh-in problem, and Ashutosh Kotwal is determined to get...
Why do avalanches start to slide? And what happens inside the “pile of snow?” If you ask yourself these questions,...
Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney have proven that a...
When world-leading teams join forces, new findings are bound to be made. This is what happened when quantum physicists from...
Traditional black holes, as predicted by Albert Einstein’s theory of General Relativity, contain what are known as singularities, i.e., points...
Combining concepts from statistical physics with machine learning, researchers at the University of Bayreuth have shown that highly accurate and...
For the first time, researchers have been able to measure the quantum state of electrons ejected from atoms that have...
What if time is not as fixed as we thought? Imagine that instead of flowing in one direction—from past to...
In a paper published earlier this month in Physical Review Letters, a team of physicists led by Jonathan Richardson of...