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We've discovered a door to a hidden part of reality – what's inside?

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We've discovered a door to a hidden part of reality – what's inside?

Physicists would dearly love to find new particles, but there's no sign of them in colliders like the LHC. Now we have found a new way of accessing a tiny slice of reality where they might be hiding

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We may have finally solved an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray puzzle

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A 3d rendered image of particles

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The deep lessons quasiparticles teach us about the nature of reality

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Quantum computers are on the edge of revealing new particle physics

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Radical photon idea could rewrite standard model of particle physics

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LHC breaks the record for heaviest antimatter nucleus ever seen

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Visual impression of the ultra-high energy neutrino event observed in KM3NeT/ARCA. The colours indicate the light seen by the ?eyes? on each module, where the different colours represent different observation times. The almost horizontally reconstructed track of the particle is shown as a line from right to left. Courtesy KM3NeT.

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Why particle physicists are going wild for a record-breaking neutrino

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LHCb Detector opening 2018

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LHC finds intriguing new clues about our universe's antimatter mystery

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The 100-year-old symmetry theorem that is still changing physics today

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Most detailed survey of particles around the sun reveals new mysteries

More than a decade of data about the particles zipping around our sun could be used to solve many mysteries, from the behaviour of individual particles to the history of our solar system – while raising new questions

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Physicists discover that 'impossible' particles could actually be real

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Physicists bend atoms in ‘impossible’ experiment

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Mind

Can you and your family solve these mind-bending scientific riddles?

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From enshittocene to virome, science and technology's words of 2024

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