Using high-intensity lasers, researchers have taken an important step toward miniaturization of particle accelerators by demonstrating free-electron laser amplification at extreme ultraviolet ...

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Elementary particle physics reflects the human quest to understand the basic building blocks of nature and the rules that govern the physical world. This quest has led not only to critical scientific ...

Dark matter could be the result of fermions pushed into a warped fifth dimension. This theory builds on an idea first stated in 1999, but is unique in its findings. Dark matter makes up 75 percent of ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is in the business of discovering new subatomic particles—and business is good. The team at CERN recently announced ...

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April 2 (Reuters) - Federal Reserve policymakers held short-term borrowing costs steady at their March 17-18 meeting, as they did in January. As a group they continued to pencil in one interest-rate ...

Theorists have found that a “warm” version of cosmic inflation is consistent with known physics, linking it to the hunt for dark matter ...