The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) gets a breath of fresh air as it collides beams of protons and oxygen ions for the very first ...

Far lighter than other ions collided at the LHC, oxygen (and neon) could tell us about conditions in the early universe.

This campaign will cover a wide range of research, from the study of cosmic rays to the strong force and quark-gluon plasma, ...

Webb’s new images of the Bullet Cluster reveal the most detailed dark matter map yet, shedding light on cosmic collisions and ...

The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses.

Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in the inner solar system than those beyond the ...

Astronomers studying a distant galaxy cluster stumbled upon ancient radio signals that might hold clues to the formation of ...

A newly discovered radio halo, 10 billion light-years away, reveals that galaxy clusters in the early universe were already steeped in high-energy particles. The finding hints at ancient black hole ...

As few as five electrons in a semiconductor can exhibit collective behaviour, forming a “Coulomb liquid”, according to researchers in Europe. This extends the study of correlated systems to electron ...

In physics, there are two great pillars of thought that don't quite fit together. The Standard Model of particle physics describes all known ...