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Large Hadron Collider detects strange particle behavior that could rewrite physics
LHCb finds B meson penguin decays deviating from Standard Model predictions at 4-sigma significance, hinting at undiscovered particles or forces.
Read full story →Antihydrogen mirrors hydrogen in upgraded spectrum test, narrowing cosmic mystery
CERN's ALPHA collaboration achieves a 100-fold precision improvement measuring antihydrogen's hyperfine splitting, tightening constraints on matter-antimatter symmetry.
Read full story →Tiny droplets of primordial soup appear in oxygen collisions
CMS collaboration detects quark-gluon plasma droplets in oxygen-nucleus collisions at the LHC, recreating a state of matter from microseconds after the Big Bang.
Read full story →Key Chemistry Question Answered, No Quantum Computer Required
Caltech researchers classically computed the ground-state energy of nitrogenase's complex iron-sulfur cluster, challenging the need for quantum computers in chemistry.
Read full story →NASA's Fermi telescope reveals the power source behind monster supernovae
Fermi's Large Area Telescope detects gamma rays from superluminous supernova SN 2017egm, confirming a rapidly spinning magnetar as the energy source behind these extreme explosions.
Read full story →IceCube detects break in cosmic neutrino spectrum, ruling out simple power-law model
IceCube analysis of over a decade of data finds a spectral break near 30 TeV, rejecting the simple power-law model of cosmic neutrino emission at greater than 4-sigma significance.
Read full story →Scientists discover atoms suddenly spinning backward in quantum experiment
Using terahertz laser pulses, researchers observe angular momentum transfer in bismuth selenide crystals reversing direction — the first experimental proof of a lattice angular momentum Umklapp process.
Read full story →Scientists may have found the source of the most powerful neutrino ever detected
A 220 PeV neutrino detected by KM3NeT in the Mediterranean Sea is traced to blazar populations, pointing to supermassive black holes as sources of the most energetic cosmic particles.
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