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What is matter? It’s not as basic as you’d think.
A little less than one-third of the universe—around 31 percent—consists of matter. A new calculation confirms that number;...
A 3,200-megapixel digital camera is ready for its cosmic photoshoot
The world’s largest digital camera is officially ready to begin filming “the greatest movie of all time,” according to its makers....
A four-legged ‘Robodog’ is patrolling the Large Hadron Collider
Traversing through the dark, underground areas of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Switzerland isn’t for the faint of...
How physicists built the world’s smallest particle accelerator
If you think of a particle accelerator, what may come to mind is something like CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC): a multibillion-dollar...
Does antimatter fall down or up? We now have a definitive answer.
Albert Einstein didn’t know about the existence of antimatter when he came up with the theory of general relativity, which has governed...
A massive detector in China will try to find a supernova before it happens
Trillions of particles from distant stars and galaxies are streaming through your body every second—you just can’t feel them. These...
This record-breaking X-ray laser is ready to unlock quantum secrets
One of the world’s most powerful lasers can soon begin peering deeper into the atomic world thanks to recent, cutting-edge X-ray...
A fleeting subatomic particle may be exposing flaws in a major physics theory
One of the biggest questions in particle physics is whether the field itself tells an incomplete picture of the universe. At Fermilab, a US...
Colorado is getting a state-of-the-art laser fusion facility
The path to fusion power is getting a $150 million boost thanks to a partnership between Colorado State University and private laser energy...
Euclid space telescope begins its search through billions of galaxies for dark matter and energy
It’s an exhilarating and sobering thought: All the planets, galaxies, starlight, and other objects that we can see and measure in the...
