A cyclotron is a type of particle accelerator. It uses magnetic and electric fields to speed up charged particles like protons or ions to very high speeds. This allows the particles to collide with ...

The key test passed by sPHENIX to prove it is ready to measure the properties of quark-gluon plasma is called a "standard ...

Rutgers scientist Phoebe Stapleton answers PEOPLE's questions about a pioneering new study on nano-sized plastic particles discovered in bottled water.

Recent progress on both analog and digital simulations of quantum fields foreshadows a future in which quantum computers ...

Since the 1990s, evidence has been growing that quantum computers should be able to solve a range of particularly complex ...

According to quantum mechanics, particles are simultaneously in two or more states until observed – an effect vividly captured by Schrödinger’s famous thought experiment of a cat that is both ...

“There’s a lot of meanings for ‘small,’” says Janet Conrad, a particle physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...