CERN’s Large Hadron Collider will soon be smashing oxygen and neon atoms into other atoms of their own kind as part of its ATLAS experiment. The collisions will happen under enough heat and pressure ...

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For the first time, scientists have observed quantum interference—a wavelike interaction between particles related to the weird quantum phenomenon of entanglement—occurring between two different kinds ...

An experiment at the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in the United States provides new insights into the strong interaction that holds neutrons and protons together inside atomic nuclei 1.

The isotope lead-208 was predicted to be extremely stable and perfectly spherical because of the “magic” numbers of electrons and protons orbiting its nucleus. When researchers blasted lead-208 with ...

After the rapid rise of the artificial intelligence (AI) industry, the next hot sector could be quantum computing. Quantum ...