The effects of quantum mechanics are all around us, but the quantum properties of matter are generally only apparent at the microscopic level. Superfluidity...

IntroductionPhysicists have begun to explore the proton as if it were a subatomic planet. Cutaway maps display newfound details of the particle’s interior. The...

Just over a week ago, European physicists announced they had measured the strength of gravity on the smallest scale ever. In a clever tabletop experiment,...

China’s Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) in Beijing is pioneering innovative approaches in quantum computing and quantum machine learning to open up new...

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Fermilab, the US particle-physics facility on the outskirts of Chicago, has just named its guest composer for 2024. According to the lab, the pianist...

Artificial intelligence is seemingly everywhere. Right now, generative AI in particular—tools like Midjourney, ChatGPT, Gemini (previously Bard), and others—is at the peak of hype. But...

The “P5” panel of US particle physicists says that work on developing a future muon collider could allow the US to regain the “energy...

It is very likely that ultra-dense deconfined quark matter exists in the cores of the most massive neutron stars, according to a study by...

From the fastest woman to run across the US to the mechanics of dancing peanuts, physics has had its fair share of quirky stories this year....

For the first time, particle physicists have observed the simultaneous production of a photon and a top quark. The milestone was achieved by the...

A cosmic-ray particle with an energy about 36 million times greater than the particles accelerated by CERN’s Large Hadron Collider has been detected. At...