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The world’s largest atom smasher has conducted its first-ever collisions between protons and oxygen ions, as part of an ...

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) gets a breath of fresh air as it collides beams of protons and oxygen ions for the very first ...

Nuclear energy is the answer to soaring AI-driven power demand—offering reliable, carbon-free electricity for nonstop digital operations.

What happens when the smallest building blocks of matter refuse to play by the rules of traditional physics? For decades, ...

The invisible dark matter is one of the universe's biggest mysteries, and its existence is confirmed only by the ...

Physicists have solved a long-standing puzzle about mercury’s nuclear fission by using a five-dimensional model that ...

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