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UK reveals next STEPs toward prototype fusion power plant

The "Maxwell’s demon cooling double trap" developed by the BASE collaboration can cool antiprotons very quickly

Improved antiproton trap could shed more light on antimatter-matter asymmetry

Maxwell's demon cooling trap measures the magnetic moment of antiprotons with higher precision than ever before

Fusion’s public-relations drive is obscuring the challenges that lie ahead

Guy Matthews says that the focus on public relations is masking the challenges of commercializing nuclear fusion

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Estonia becomes first Baltic state to join CERN

Tsung-Dao Lee: Nobel laureate famed for work on parity violation dies aged 97

US plasma physicists propose construction of a ‘flexible’ stellarator facility

Research headlines

Quark distribution in light–heavy mesons is mapped using innovative calculations

Form factors can be tested by collider experiments

Heavy exotic antinucleus gives up no secrets about antimatter asymmetry

Antihyperhydrogen-4 is observed by the Star Collaboration

Half-life measurement of samarium-146 could help reveal secrets of the early solar system

Isotope is extracted from an accelerator target

Multiple molecular hexaquarks are predicted by theoretical study

Exotic hadrons comprising six quarks could be observed in future experiments

Quantum dot liquid scintillator could revolutionize neutrino detection

A new type of water-based scintillator made from quantum dots could make neutrino detectors safer and cheaper

Diagram showing a sphere with a radioactive particle embedded in it, trapped in the focus of a laser beam and emitting an alpha particle

Physicists detect nuclear decay in the recoil of a levitating sphere

Principle of momentum conservation makes it possible to "see" individual alpha particles leaving a micron-scale silica bead

Big Science, Quantum Advantage

Take a look at our free-to-read digital issue of Big Science, Quantum Advantage. Big-science facilities might be best known for their work in fundamental physics, but some of them – in particular, high-energy physics labs – are starting to flex their muscles when it comes to quantum physics too. Read more in this special report.

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Left to right: Tom Hanks and Ayelet Zurer with director Ron Howard. Standing in front on CERN particle physics laboratory in 2009

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Rumours spread like nuclear fission, say physicists

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Smashing heavier ions creates superheavy livermorium

New technique brings an island of stability closer

A panel discussion on future colliders at the International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP).

From new physics to sustainability, particle physics looks to the future

Katherine Skipper reports on 2024's International Conference on High Energy Physics in Prague

X(3960) is a tetraquark, theoretical analysis suggests

Calculations reproduce particle’s mass and lifetime

Courtesy: Thomas Angus/Imperial College London/Zap Energy

Zap Energy targets fusion power without magnets, Claudia de Rham on the beauty of gravity

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A group of people including Tom Hanks in front of the ATLAS detector at CERN

Angels & Demons, Tom Hanks and Peter Higgs: how CERN sold its story to the world

James Gillies recalls the drama of his time as head of communications at CERN, which turns 70 this year

Second team uses laser to excite thorium-229 nuclear transition

Rapid progress being made in development of nuclear clock

Charmonium’s onion-like structure is revealed by new calculations

Prediction could be tested by upcoming Electron-Ion Collider

ITER fusion reactor hit by massive decade-long delay and €5bn price hike

Full operation with deuterium and tritium is not expected until 2039

A 1950s children's board game called Uranium Rush

When the world went wild for uranium: tales from the history of a controversial element

Margaret Harris reviews Chain Reactions: a Hopeful History of Uranium by Lucy Jane Santos

Speed of sound in quark–gluon plasma is measured at CERN

Collisions at the CMS detector provide insights into lattice QCD and neutron stars

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