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An invisible force has long eluded detection within the halls of the world’s most famous particle accelerator—until now.
This podcast features an interview with Sara Alderweireldt, who is a physicist working on the ATLAS experiment at CERN – the ...
You know about Einstein, and you’re no doubt familiar with Richard Feynman and Stephen Hawking, but there are plenty of famous physicists alive today that you should know about if you don’t already.
A new physics paper takes a step toward creating a long-sought "theory of everything" by uniting gravity with the quantum world. However, the new theory remains far from being proven observationally.
In the early part of the 20th century almost all the famous physicists of the era—Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Erwin Schrödinger, Werner Heisenberg, Max Born, ...
This Famous Physics Experiment Shows Why the Government Should Support ‘Useless’ Science. Basic research often pays huge dividends—but that’s not why we do it. Photograph: Getty Images ...
Plasma could be wrangled to collide photons and yield matter, according to physicists who ran simulations to explore the practical applications of a world-famous equation. The equation at work ...
(via Sabine Hossenfelder) Three years ago, there was a frenzy over an experiment at Fermilab that confirmed anomaly of the muon - a fundamental particle in the standard model.Since then, physicists ...
When Famous Physicists Faced Off in Mussolini’s Rome . Mark Wolverton Undark July 7, 2024 Co-op ... Only 31, he was already a rising star in the new and rapidly developing field of quantum physics, ...