You need to start with a star shedding material ahead of the explosion, something common in several types of supernova.

Five Florida State University physicists are part of the international team awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental ...

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Particle accelerators can be surprisingly temperamental machines. Expertise, specialisation and experience is needed to ...

Physicists at CERN have achieved the ancient dream of turning other metals into gold, and they did it with physics, not magic ...

Discover the fascinating world of particle physics — the most fundamental building blocks of the universe and the forces that ...

I’ve posted before about Charles Brooks’ fantastic series of photographs of the insides of musical instruments. Recent ...

A team of physicists has embarked on a journey where few others have gone: into the glue that binds atomic nuclei. The ...

Could it be that the alchemists’ long-elusive dream — transmuting the worthless into the sublime — has at last been realized?

Instead of using the Large Hadron Collider to smash atoms together, researchers briefly turned lead into gold by facilitating near-misses.

Nuria Catalan Lasheras and Igor Syratchev explain why klystrons are strategically important to the future of the field – and ...

Crews cooled a tunnel housing a particle accelerator to negative 456 degrees Fahrenheit — a temperature cooler than much of space — on April 15. Part of an upgrade project to Linac Coherent ...