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Research Could Help Solve the Perplexing Proton Puzzle

Berkeley Lab scientists have developed new machine learning algorithms to accelerate the analysis of data collected decades ago by HERA, the world's most powerful electron-proton collider that ran at the DESY national research center in Germany from 1992 to 2007.

26 Oct 2022

Physicists Create the First Bose-Einstein Condensate Made from Quasiparticles

Physicists have created the first Bose-Einstein condensate -; the mysterious "'fifth state" of matter -; made from quasiparticles, entities that do not count as elementary particles but that can still have elementary-particle properties like charge and spin.

26 Oct 2022

ALICE Investigates the Concealed Charm of Quark–Gluon Plasma

Quark–gluon plasma is a very hot and dense state of matter wherein the fundamental components—quarks and gluons—are not limited inside composite particles known as hadrons, as they are in the neutrons and protons that compose the nuclei of atoms.

21 Oct 2022

NASA’s Space Telescope Spots Dense Cosmic Knot in the Early Universe

Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers studying the early universe have unearthed an astonishing discovery: a cluster of massive galaxies that are developing around an incredibly red quasar.

21 Oct 2022

Study Finds Effect of Earth’s Orbit Around the Sun on Ancient Microorganisms

Curtin University researchers studying molecular fossils or ‘biomarkers’ from deep beneath the Chicxulub impact crater have found evidence of how microorganisms changed in response to fluctuations in the Earth’s climate, offering clues about how the planet and life forms may respond to climate change in our modern world.

21 Oct 2022

Nuclear Physicists Detect Unexplained Bump in Proton Structure

Nuclear physicists have corroborated that the existing explanation of proton structure is not perfect. A recent accuracy determination of the proton’s electric polarizability conducted at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has exposed a gap in the data in probes of the proton’s structure.

20 Oct 2022