Currently, there are 100 trillion neutrinos flowing through you. Don’t worry though; they hardly interact with matter. In ...

Columbia professors contributed to new research that seeks to understand an anomaly that has puzzled particle physics for ...

Why does lead behave so differently from every other atomic nucleus when struck by electrons? A team of physicists at ...

Two papers challenged the existence of theorized particles called sterile neutrinos that might account for mysteries like the ...

New results from the MicroBooNE experiment at Fermilab found no evidence of a hypothetical fourth flavor of neutrino ...

Scientists have taken a major step toward solving a long-standing mystery in particle physics, by finding no sign of the ...

Superconductivity occurs when electrons in a metal pair up and move through the material without resistance. But there may be more to the story than we thought, as scientists in Germany have now ...

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Measuring up: an electron scattering experiment yields a small proton radius. (Courtesy: Jefferson Lab) For nearly a decade the size of the particle that makes up the bulk of the universe’s visible ...

Quantum computers, systems that process information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, have the potential of ...

Many elementary particles splinter into shards, but not the electron. At least scientists hadn’t thought so. According to new theoretical research, however, there are extreme conditions under which ...

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