Physicists know that their elegant theoretical description of forces and particles — the standard model of particle physics — must be incomplete, because there are a host of phenomena it cannot ...
CMS at CERN Oxygen collisions at the LHC could have created a quark–gluon plasma. (Courtesy: Matin Durrani) Colliding oxygen nuclei could briefly recreate one of the most extreme states of matter in ...
During this time, advancing optical technology repeatedly opened new sub-fields of atomic, molecular and solid-state science, most notably real-time chemistry 4. It also became possible to do ...