London-based artist Oksana Kondratyeva has created a new stained-glass artwork – entitled Discovery – that is inspired by the ...

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They directly stem from the Higgs mechanism, revealing the initial code of the universe's transition from chaos to order. Looking back to the moment of the universe's birth, electromagnetic force and ...

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The speed of light, c, is not just a very large number. In modern physics it is a structural constant: the conversion factor ...

As a central hub for scientific exploration, CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is dedicated to probing ...

The cosmic microwave background. Charm. The Brout–Englert–Higgs mechanism. CP violation. Colour. 1964 was a remarkable year for invention and discovery . The story of quarkonia began one year earlier, ...

Although banana-shaped molecules themselves are not 'handed', they can arrange themselves in striking superstructures including helices that spontaneously break mirror symmetry, making them 'handed'.

Understanding the universe's building blocks, the Standard Model categorizes particles and explains forces, yet leaves questions about gravity and dark matter.

How are community inputs and debates shaping the ongoing update to the European strategy for particle physics? The Courier ...