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Explainer: What Are Fundamental Particles?

Paul Kyberd 06/04/2021

Physicists are currently trying to explain the properties of...

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Where Is Consciousness?

Christof Koch 27/03/2021

Darwin concluded that there was no absolute threshold between...

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CERN Collider Finds Tantalising Hint of New Force of Nature

Harry Cliff, Alexandros Petridis and Paula Alvarez Cartelle 24/03/2021

The excitement is tempered by extreme caution.

Ernest Rutherford, proton, Large Hadron Collider, particle physics, quark model, Murray Gell-Mann, George Zweig, quantum chromodynamics, strong nuclear force, string theory, SLAC, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, glasma, quark gluon plasma, gluon, parton distribution functions, colour glass condensate, spin crisis,

Nuclear Goes Retro – With a Much Greener Outlook

M. Mitchell Waldrop, Knowable Magazine 01/08/2019

Returning to designs abandoned in the 1970s, start-ups are...

AN Mitra, baryons, Eightfold Way, George Zweig, gluons, hadrons, Hideki Yukawa, Lambda particles, Large Hadron Collider, mesons, Murray Gell-Mann, neutrinos, neutrons, particle physics, protons, quarks, Richard Dalitz, Richard Feynman, Santa Fe Institute, see-saw mechanism, Shoichi Sakata, SLAC, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, strong interactions, strong nuclear force, SU(3) symmetry, theoretical physics, Yuval Ne’eman,

The Strangeness of Murray Gell-Mann

Madhusudhan Raman 31/05/2019

In the 1940s and 1950s, experimentalists dredged up the...

Murray Gell-Mann, theoretical physics, particle physics, Richard Feynman, Richard Dalitz, SU(3) symmetry, quarks, gluons, Large Hadron Collider, Hideki Yukawa, neutrinos, see-saw mechanism, Shoichi Sakata, Yuval Ne'eman, George Zweig, Eightfold Way, protons, neutrons, Lambda particles, mesons, baryons, hadrons, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, SLAC, strong interactions, strong nuclear force, Santa Fe Institute, AN Mitra,

How Murray Gell-Mann Brought Clarity to a New Force of Nature

G. Rajasekaran 30/05/2019

Though his most well-known contribution is the proposal that...

antimatter, Big Bang, LHCb, Large Hadron Collider, CERN, CP symmetry, CP symmetry violation, quarks, charm quark, anti-quark, D0 mesons, kaons, B mesons, charge parity, weak nuclear force, strong nuclear force, Standard Model of particle physics, particle physics, new physics, CEPC,

Spotted: New Clue to Uncover Why Universe Is Made of Matter, Not Antimatter

Vasudevan Mukunth 22/03/2019

The universe is made entirely of matter today even...