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A multitude of experiments have shown the mysterious phenomena of quantum mechanics to be how the universe functions. The scientists behind these experiments won the 2022 Nobel Prize in physics.
Recent discoveries have led to an alphabet soup of particles.
The Matter of Everything is a partial account of the history of physics, which leaves out a lot, including the story of some key women scientists.
Regular matter makes up just one-sixth of all the matter in the universe. What would it mean to finally understand what makes up the rest?
Studying the properties of the Higgs boson could throw up some shocking truths about the nature of reality.
A series of thrilling research means physicists may have to start inventing brand new physics.
A decadelong experiment produced the most accurate measurement yet of the mass of W bosons. These particles are responsible for the weak force, and the result is more evidence for undiscovered physics.
Physicists know a lot about the most fundamental properties of the universe, but they certainly don’t know everything. 2021 was a big year for physics – what was learned and what’s coming next?
A new result from the MicroBooNE neutrino experiment has dashed hopes for a neat resolution to several puzzles for physicists.
Particle physicists might be on the brink of a major breakthrough.
Laser-cooling enables new measurements that could explain why antimatter is so scarce in our universe.
For 15 years, there has been a mismatch in physics. A particle called the muon wasn’t behaving the way theory predicted it should. A new theory and new experiment might solve this problem.
New particles or forces may exist that aren’t accounted for in the standard model.
A transcript of episode 9 of The Conversation Weekly podcast, including an update on the situation for Rohingya refugees in Myanmar living in camps in Bangladesh.
Plus why the situation for Rohingya Muslims living in Bangladesh has gone from bad to worse. Listen to episode 9 of The Conversation Weekly podcast.
A long-sought crack in the Standard Model of particle physics may have been spotted.
If the finding really is the result of new fundamental particles then it will finally be the breakthrough that physicists have been yearning for for decades.
The theory of tiny particles isn’t complete. But new discoveries are helping scientists expand it.
Plus new research finds a way to speed up the search for dark matter. Listen to episode 4 of The Conversation Weekly.
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Particle physicist, University of Cambridge
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Post Doctoral Research Associate, Centre for the Subatomic Structure of Matter, University of Adelaide
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Head of School for Physics, University of Sydney
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ARC Research Associate (Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at Tera Scale), University of Adelaide
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Professor of Physics, Head of Department, Lancaster University
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Associate Professor, Philosophy of Science, Australian Catholic University
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Senior Lecturer in Particle Physics Informatics, Brunel University London
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Royal Society University Research Fellow and Lecturer in Particle Physics, UCL
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Research Professor and Director of the International Institute for Accelerator Applications, University of Huddersfield
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Doctoral Student, College of Community and Public Affairs, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Quantum Physics, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor of Astrophysics, Swinburne University of Technology
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University of Adelaide
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Principle Research Scientist Materials Science and Engineering, CSIRO
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Howard Wiseman is a Friend of The Conversation.
Director, Centre for Quantum Dynamics, Griffith University
