Physicists have long struggled to unite quantum mechanics—the theory governing tiny particles—with Einstein’s theory of ...

Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger have won the Nobel Prize for physics for their landmark achievements in quantum mechanics -- the study of the behavior of particles and atoms -- the ...

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A new study broadens the horizon of knowledge about how matter behaves under extreme conditions and helps to solve some great unknowns about the origin of the universe. An international team of ...

The magnum opus of particle physics is far from complete, requiring physicists to devise many alternatives—some weirder than ...

Measuring atmospheric plastics Abundance and composition of microplastics (MP) and nanoplastics (NP) in aerosols and estimated fluxes across atmospheric compartments in semiarid (Xi’an) and humid ...

The strange behaviour of a fundamental particle called a muon may hint at the existence of exotic particles and forces beyond the standard model of physics. We have had signs of this anomaly before, ...

Active matter: this microscope image shows part of a cluster of self-propelled particles, colour-coded according to their distance from the centre. (Courtesy: Jie Zhang, Ricard Alert, Jing Yan, Ned S ...

Physicists demonstrate a correlation between the behavior of collective animal systems and a so-called 'critical point'. Current experiments support the controversial hypothesis that a well-known ...

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