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Key TakeawaysFor the first time, researchers simultaneously used ultrafast X-rays and electrons to image a shockwave in water ...

The scientists behind the MAGIS-100 experiment aim to use state-of-the-art lasers to shed light on ultralight dark matter.

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At 4 a.m., while most of New Jersey slept, a Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) physicist sat at his computer ...

The particle in question, known as a sterile neutrino, was supposed to only interact with gravity and have zero interactions ...

Biology has always been an unruly science. Cells divide when they want to. Genes switch on and off like temperamental lights.

Wu designed and executed an experiment that questioned — and then disproved — the infallibility of parity. After freezing a ...

New results from the MicroBooNE experiment rule out the existence of a sterile neutrino, reshaping how scientists think about ...

Researchers have made a significant advancement in understanding the underlying heating mechanism of the sun's atmosphere, finding that reflected plasma waves could drive the heating of coronal holes.