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Maxwell's demon cooling trap measures the magnetic moment of antiprotons with higher precision than ever before
Guy Matthews says that the focus on public relations is masking the challenges of commercializing nuclear fusion
Form factors can be tested by collider experiments
Antihyperhydrogen-4 is observed by the Star Collaboration
Isotope is extracted from an accelerator target
Exotic hadrons comprising six quarks could be observed in future experiments
A new type of water-based scintillator made from quantum dots could make neutrino detectors safer and cheaper
Principle of momentum conservation makes it possible to "see" individual alpha particles leaving a micron-scale silica bead
From the Higgs boson at CERN to nuclear reactions inside stars, who doesn’t love particle and nuclear physics? There’s so much exciting work going on in both fields, which is why we’re bringing you this new free-to-read digital issue of the Physics World Particle & Nuclear Briefing.
Announcement makes us pine for the Black Hills
Claudia de Rham and Ian Walmsley pay tribute to the contributions of the great theorist Abdus Salam
Philip Ball reviews Farm Hall by Katherine Moar at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, London, which runs until 31 August 2024
Peering behind the comms curtain at the world's most famous particle physics lab
Robert P Crease explains how Fermilab navigated an accidental leak of tritium
The gateway ‘bridges the gap between the general public and the people in lab coats’
PhD studentship available to develop technologies for in situ characterization of nuclear fission products
Neutrons are rumours and people are uranium isotopes in new model
New technique brings an island of stability closer
Katherine Skipper reports on 2024's International Conference on High Energy Physics in Prague
Calculations reproduce particle’s mass and lifetime
In this podcast we chat about small-scale fusion and a familiar yet mysterious force
James Gillies recalls the drama of his time as head of communications at CERN, which turns 70 this year
Rapid progress being made in development of nuclear clock
Prediction could be tested by upcoming Electron-Ion Collider
Full operation with deuterium and tritium is not expected until 2039
Margaret Harris reviews Chain Reactions: a Hopeful History of Uranium by Lucy Jane Santos
Collisions at the CMS detector provide insights into lattice QCD and neutron stars