Muons are getting a move on. In a step toward new types of particle physics experiments, scientists cooled and then accelerated a beam of muons. The subatomic particles, heavy cousins of electrons ...

Optical physics is the study of the fundamental properties of light and its interaction with matter. This includes classical optical phenomena such as reflection, refraction, diffraction and ...

An India-UK physics team has proposed a table-top experiment to probe a question that has intrigued modern physicists for decades: does gravity change when measured? The experiment will measure ...

"During the Shenzhou-19 flight ... 86 space sci-tech experiments will be carried out in the fields of space life sciences, microgravity physics, materials, medicine, new technologies," Lin Xiqiang ...

Background benchmarking measurements have been made to check the low-energy processes which will contribute via nuclear reactions to the radiation background in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) ...

The Physics of Particles community builds and runs experiments to measure the interactions of particles at the smallest accessible scales, helping us to understand the physics of the universe. The ...

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Proposed experiments will search for signs that spacetime is quantum and can exist in a superposition of multiple shapes at once ...

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