Photon smashers: Shuai Yang (right) and Rice University colleague Wei Li are members of the CMS collaboration. (Courtesy: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University) A new way of studying matter that is created when ...
Originally discovered in a mineral found off the Norwegian coast in 1828, thorium is named after Thor, the Norse god of thunder. It would take another century and a half for scientists to determine ...
Probing the dark side The PADME experiment at the National Institute of Nuclear Physics in Frascati will search for exotic new particles. (Courtesy: C. Di Giulio) Physicists in Italy are about to ...
For the first time, an international research team, led by GSI/FAIR in Darmstadt, the Institut de recherche sur les lois fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU) in Saclay, France, and the Max Planck ...