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Underground Neutrino Experiment Sets the Stage for Deep Discovery about Matter

March 27, 2018

Collaborators of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR, an experiment led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, have shown they can shield a ...

Surprising Result Shocks Scientists Studying Spin

January 9, 2018

Findings on how differently sized nuclei respond to spin offer new insight into mechanisms affecting particle production in p...

Scientists Detect a Quantum Crystal of Electrons And "Watch" It Melt

December 27, 2016

New observations confirm an 80-year-old quantum theory

Scientists Develop a Path toward Improved High-Energy Accelerators

December 16, 2016

Scientists use the high-energy beams, which must be stable and intense to work effectively, to unlock the ultimate structure ...

Scientists Model the "Flicker" of Gluons in Subatomic Smashups

August 4, 2016

Model identifies fluctuations in the glue-like particles that bind quarks within protons as essential to explaining experimen...

A Glimpse Inside the Atom

July 18, 2016

Using electron microscopes, it is possible to image individual atoms

Two Large Hadron Collider Experiments First to Observe Rare Subatomic Process

May 14, 2015

Two experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland,...

2014's Top-10 Scientific Achievements at Brookhaven Lab

January 6, 2015

From new insights into the building blocks of matter to advances in understanding batteries, superconductors, and a protein t...

World Record for Compact Particle Accelerator

December 10, 2014

Researchers at Berkeley Lab ramp up energy of laser-plasma “tabletop” accelerator.

Hide & Seek: Sterile Neutrinos Remain Elusive

October 3, 2014

Daya Bay neutrino experiment publishes a new result on its first search for a "sterile" neutrino.

Nuclear Spins Control Current in Plastic LED

September 22, 2014

Step toward quantum computing, spintronic memory, better displays.

Radiation from Early Universe Found Key to Answer Major Questions in Physics

May 16, 2014

Astrophysicists at UC San Diego have measured the minute gravitational distortions in polarized radiation from the early univ...

Physicists Publish Observation of So-called Charming Socialites

December 28, 2013

DETROIT — Protons and neutrons, the particles in an atomic nucleus, are made of smaller pieces called "quarks." Some ty...

Novel Type of Microscope Uses Neutrons

October 11, 2013

Device could open up new areas of research on materials and biological samples at tiny scales.

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