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Quantum Computers Simulate Particle ‘String Breaking’ in a Physics Breakthrough

Quantum Computers Simulate Particle ‘String Breaking’ in a Physics Breakthrough Physicists are a step closer to using quantum computers for…

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‘Impossible’ particle that hit Earth may have been dark matter

A blazar may have blasted dark matter at Earth M. Weiss/CfA/NASA An extremely high-energy particle that was spotted tearing through…

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Quantum computers are on the edge of revealing new particle physics

Quantum computers can simulate the behaviour of high-energy particles Google Quantum AI, designed by Sayo Studio Quantum computers are beginning…

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Facing steep funding cuts, scientists propose using black holes as particle colliders instead of building new ones on Earth

In the face of eye-watering costs, long construction times and the Trump administration’s slashing of federal science funding, physicists have…

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Particle physics: Facts about the elementary particles that make up our universe

Quick facts about particle physics Number of known elementary particles: 61 The particles that are in an atom: protons, neutrons…

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Scientists may have discovered the most powerful particle accelerator in the universe — and the Large Hadron Collider has its work cut out for it

Supernovas can become some of the most powerful particle colliders in the universe — but only if they pass a…

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Radical photon idea could rewrite standard model of particle physics

Photons could upend the standard model of particle physics Eduard Muzhevskyi/Alamy If photons possess more quantum states than expected, it…

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Measuring Gluons and Quarks at the Brookhaven Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, the Nation’s Only Particle Collider

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, this is Rachel Feltman. Today we’re taking you on another one of our…

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The ‘impossible’ particle hinting at the universe’s biggest secrets

For over a decade, floating cranes have been lowering a strange cargo some 3000 metres under the Mediterranean Sea. The…

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‘Beauty’ particle discovered at Large Hadron Collider could unlock new physics

Physicists at the world’s largest particle accelerator have made a first-of-its-kind discovery about antimatter that could help solve one of…

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