Death of nuclear physicist Xu Hongjie came just weeks before the project he led achieved a breakthrough in fourth-generation ...

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In a rare global collaboration, scientists from Japan and the United States joined forces to explore one of the universe’s ...

An international team of scientists, led by the University of Oxford, has achieved a world-first by creating plasma ...

India, and a national institute of higher learning that fosters high-quality fundamental research in frontier disciplines of ...

In 1867, Lord Kelvin imagined atoms as knots in the aether. The idea was soon disproven. Atoms turned out to be something ...

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In 1957 a group of the titans of physics gathered in a lecture hall at Princeton University to be addressed by a diminutive Chinese American woman. As she told the crowd about her recent experiment ...