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Artist’s impression of the short-lived union of a top quark and a top antiquark formed by the exchange of gluons

Elusive romance of top-quark pairs observed at the LHC

07/08/25

The CMS and ATLAS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have observed an unforeseen feature in the behaviour of top quarks that suggests that these heaviest of all elementary particles form a fleeting union.

06/23/25

Ever-changing universe revealed in first imagery from NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory

The world’s largest digital camera brings the night sky to life like never before.

06/17/25

What’s next for European physics?

Next week, physicists will meet in Venice to discuss the future of European particle physics research.

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06/10/25

The algorithms that help scientists sort through a universe of change

Astronomers use brokers to identify which signals to pursue in an endless stream of alerts.

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06/05/25

Dialing gravitational lensing research up to 11

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, funded by the US National Science Foundation and US Department of Energy's Office of Science, will add an unprecedented amount of cosmological data to the study of the structure and expansion of the universe.

06/03/25

Muon g-2 announces most precise measurement of the magnetic anomaly of the muon

The experiment's third and final result, based on the last three years of data, is in perfect agreement with previous results, further solidifying the experimental world average.

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05/27/25

When the universe answers with silence

With big outstanding questions and little hints of new physics, physicists are now rethinking some of their most fundamental assumptions.

05/13/25

LHC near-miss collisions turn lead into gold

In a recent study, ALICE scientists measured the way that lead ions colliding in the LHC sometimes transform into gold and other new nuclei.

Illustration of a giant toddler on a trike.

05/06/25

The freckled universe

There’s a new class of cosmic object in town. And it might just overturn our understanding of black holes and galaxy evolution.

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