If the hunch of several Glenbrook North High School students is correct, the nuclear power industry may someday owe them a major thank you. Currently, the durability of rods used to clad, or sheath, ...

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A new particle detector has passed a crucial test that shows it is ready to detect the "ashes" left over from a unique primordial soup that filled the universe immediately after the Big Bang. The ...

After a decade of painstaking measurements, scientists have delivered a major plot twist in particle physics: a ...

There’s a new particle in town, and it’s a double-charmingly heavy beast. Researchers working on the LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have announced the discovery of the esoterically ...

If you want to explain what was and what is, you need particle physics. Because everything we see consists of molecules and atoms, and atoms in turn consist of atomic nuclei and electrons. The atomic ...