Nuclear physicists used a little magic in their latest experiment conducted at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas ...

Physicists at Colorado State University have measured the radius of a hydrogen proton with unprecedented precision, helping ...

As Homer tells us, Odysseus made an epic journey, against the odds, from Troy to his home in Ithaca. He visited many lands, but mostly dwelt with the nymph Calypso on her island. We can imagine that ...

Researchers dedicated to a decades-long quest to measure the magnetic properties of the subatomic muon particle have won one of this year’s US$3-million Breakthrough prizes. The results seemingly ...

In a major breakthrough, scientists have observed electrons in graphene flowing like a nearly frictionless liquid, defying a core law of physics. This exotic quantum state not only reveals new ...

Physicists have measured the mass of one of the universe’s basic building blocks, the W boson particle. The new calculation, made at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva, could help solve a ...

Last summer, a wedding photographer walked begrudgingly into a physics laboratory outside Rome. Feeling uninspired by the intricate machinery around him, he decided to turn off the lights. “I wanted ...

The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, is developing a comprehensive suite of capabilities to ensure that additively manufactured parts can perform predictably in ...

Kira’s AI Operating System for Education, powered by Anthropic’s Claude, generates fully scaffolded, scoped, and sequenced courses – from 9th Grade Biology to Corporate Leadership – with integrated ...

"By investing in innovative measurement technologies, we can accelerate progress toward commercial fusion energy and strengthen America's leadership in plasma science." The report summarizes findings ...

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory is developing a new project which aims to use AI to expedite fusion energy research. Shantenu Jha, the head of PPPL’s Computational ...

For over a decade, confusion over the size of the proton has held scientists back. Disagreeing measurements of the subatomic particle’s radius meant that scientists couldn’t test one of their key ...