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Quantum physics paints a strange picture of the world, one filled with spooky connections, unsettling uncertainties and—perhaps oddest of all—particles that spontaneously spring into being from the ...

A window into how visible matter emerges from the "nothing" of vacuum has been opened by physicists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) in New York. The ...

A newly isolated giant virus shows bizarre features inside infected cells, and its unusual structure hints at deeper ...

A physicist claims the universe’s deepest secrets can be uncovered now, through ultra-rare particle decays, without waiting decades for a new collider.

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I thought the bunker twist was wild, but this would be next-level.

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Particle physics is using ever more interdisciplinary means to seek ever more exotic phenomena, Robert P Crease finds, but ...

Scientists saw a quark plowing through primordial plasma for the first time, offering a rare look at the first moments after ...

On a frigid orbit beyond Neptune, some of the solar system’s smallest worlds project a strange silhouette. Two rounded lobes, ...

Scientists working at the South Pole have completed a major hardware expansion of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, installing new sensor strings deep in Antarctic ice during the 2025-2026 austral ...