The grand explanation physicists use to describe how the universe works may have some major new flaws to patch after a fundamental particle was found to have more mass than scientists thought. “It’s ...

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The mooted risks of the Large Hadron Collider are all worthwhile if it uncovers evidence of the Higgs boson, right…? But what if something else found that proof first, and without all the ...

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This press release is also available in German. There are two fundamentally distinct families of particles in nature: bosons and fermions. Being a boson or a fermion has profound consequences on the ...

Scientists use quantum computing to simulate a family of particles that, until recently, has been relatively neglected in quantum simulations. A group of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s ...