In the race to uncover the deepest secrets of the universe, researchers are turning to powerful new tools. One of the most promising tools is the quantum computer. It offers a way to explore problems ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The researchers found a way to identify and control anyons. (Eugene Mymrin/Getty Images) Restricting a strange class of particles ...

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An MIT-led team has found that data from “near-misses” at the Large Hadron Collider, long dismissed as background noise, can ...

This week, CERN announced that it has detected a new particle at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) called the Xi-cc-plus. It's ...

Scientists at CERN’s LHCb experiment have discovered a new particle made of two charm quarks and one down quark.

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Researchers at South Dakota Mines have completed the first measurement of a rare particle interaction that could help ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In the fall of 2022, a Princeton University graduate student named Carolina Figueiredo stumbled onto a massive coincidence. She ...

The fluid-handling bioprocessing surfaces that successfully repel microliter droplets aren’t as effective for nano- and picoliter droplets. Because those smaller droplets are more sensitive to ...