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New CERN measurement challenges conventional models of how gluons behave inside atomic nuclei
CERN's ALICE experiment found evidence for 'gluon saturation' inside nuclei, distinguishing it from the older nuclear shadowing model.
Read full story →Muon g-2 experiment places new constraints on a forbidden property of muons
Fermilab's Muon g-2 experiment set its most sensitive limit yet on the muon's electric dipole moment, a key probe of matter-antimatter asymmetry.
Read full story →Astronomers discover a brand-new type of astrophysical object: A black hole star
JWST spotted MoM-BH*-1, a bizarre black hole star from 660 million years after the Big Bang, radiating 100 billion times more energy than any star, hinting how early supermassive black holes grow.
Read full story →A black hole shredded a "super sun" — but something strange may have survived
Months after a black hole obliterated a massive star in the record-energy 'Whippet' event, fast helium gas hints a dense remnant structure may have survived.
Read full story →Black holes older than the Big Bang could explain dark matter
A cosmic 'bounce' model suggests black holes that predate the Big Bang could have survived as fossils and might account for dark matter.
Read full story →Graduate Student Proves a Quantum Uncertainty Principle for Fractals
An MIT doctoral student proved the fractal uncertainty principle in all dimensions, showing quantum waves cannot hug fractal paths the way classical chaos allows.
Read full story →Scientists uncover new clue to how protons maintain their identity
RHIC data suggest a proton's baryon number is carried by a Y-shaped gluon junction linking its quarks, not the quarks alone, challenging textbook ideas about how matter keeps its identity.
Read full story →The optical glow of quantum crystals
Physicists used laser light to probe a Wigner crystal, a rare electron lattice, revealing polaron quasiparticles that expose the hidden collective motion of electrons in this fragile quantum state.
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