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What Is the Standard Model of Particle Physics?
The Standard Model is the quantum theory that describes known elementary particles and the electromagnetic, weak and strong interactions among them, but it does not incl…
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What Is Particle Physics?
Particle physics studies the fundamental constituents of matter and radiation, the forces that act between them, and the high-energy processes that reveal how nature wor…
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What Are Quarks?
Quarks are elementary particles that carry electric and color charge. They bind through the strong interaction to form hadrons such as protons and neutrons.
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The strongest magnetic field in the universe may be right here on Earth.
This magnetic field is 10,000 times stronger than the strongest neutron star we know of, and 10 million million times stronger than a typical refrigerator magnet can pro…
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Physicists find the first clue about 'colloidal particles' - a type of particle formed by force
After decades of effort and observations of billions of particle birth events, a group of physicists made a shocking observation.
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What happens when foreign matter enters Earth's atmosphere?
In theory, foreign matter is produced after a star dies. So what happens when a star dies?
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CERN's large particle accelerator detects 3 new subatomic particles
CERN's large particle accelerator is the machine that found the Higgs boson, a particle thought to have played an important role in the formation of the universe after t…
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Discovered an extremely rare X particle that existed from the very beginning of the universe
X (3872) is a short-lived matter particle that was recently revived in Switzerland.
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Quark matter in neutron stars
Inside the neutron stars is the 'noodle nucleus' - an unusual state of matter, consisting of subatomic particles called quarks.
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Scientists have finally discovered the mystery of dark matter in the universe
Scientists have found a particle, which could be the source of dark matter in the universe.
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Is the ability to create and control fire with mind (pyrokinesis) a fiction?
When asked if they want to possess an esper power, most people choose safe options such as flying or intangible capabilities. It's understandable, because of abilities l…
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Important discovery: The first decay observation of the Higgs particle
On August 28, 2018, scientists worked at the world's largest particle accelerator project LHC, at the European Nuclear Research Center (CERN - Geneva, Switzerland), anno…
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The new finding could change Einstein's theory of relativity
European scientists on July 6 announced that a new type of subatomic particle has been discovered that contains a mixture of never-ending quarks.
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What is the Big Bang explosion?
What is the universe? A great question has been asked before mankind for centuries. In ancient China, the philosopher Lao Tzu gave the universe an existence
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Detecting new particles can shed light on the Big Bang
Newly discovered particles will help scientists unravel the complex law that governs quarks and elementary particles that make up all atoms in the universe.