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Two Canadian physicists are relishing the news that a pair of subatomic particles they predicted more than five years ago has turned up at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's premier particle ...

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Data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) outside Geneva appears to have proved the existence of particles made of five quarks, solving a 50-year-old puzzle about the building blocks of matter, ...

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Could subatomic particles called muons help us navigate through GPS-denied Arctic waters? That’s what a team of researchers believes, and they are not alone. The U.S. military will now help them prove ...

Quantum mechanics is simultaneously beautiful and frustrating. Its explanatory power is unmatched. Armed with the machinery of quantum theory, we have unlocked the secrets of atomic power, divined the ...

The discovery could shed more light on how things work beyond the 'Standard Model' physics theory explaining the basic building blocks of matter You can save this article by registering for free here.