Physics
The mystery of the mass of the neutrino could soon be solved
We have a refined estimate for the mass of the neutrino, the most abundant massive particle in the Universe: its mass is 500,000 times less than an electron
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CERN boss: Big physics may be in a funk, but we need it more than ever
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Physicists see new hints of a fifth force of nature hidden in helium
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Space
The 鈥榥uclear pasta鈥� in neutron stars could transform particle physics
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What the quark?! Why matter’s most basic building blocks may not exist
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How big is a proton? We may finally have the answer to this puzzle
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The age of giant particle accelerators like the LHC may be over
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Special relativity
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How Star Trek鈥檚 warp drives touch on one of physics’ biggest mysteries
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What is quantum field theory?
Quantum field theory marries the ideas of other quantum theories to depict all particles as 鈥渆xcitations鈥� that arise in underlying fields.
Dark matter
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Bizarre pentaquark turns out to be a new kind of subatomic ‘molecule’
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We’ve seen signs of a mirror-image universe that is touching our own
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