Bright idea: Wolfgang Ketterle (in his M.I.T lab) hopes to discover new forms of matter by studying ultracold ... he points to a black box that has an aluminum-foil-wrapped tube leading into ...

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Laboratory experiments have coaxed simple molecules into states that naturally become more complex, hinting at the origins of ...

Researchers from the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have proposed a key indicator ...

The discovery of the new antihypernucleus could help scientists better understand the state of the universe just a millionth ...

A conceptual illustration of electrons spinning up and down. Scientists have described a ‘half ice, half fire’ state of matter that takes advantage of opposing electron spins. | Credit ...

Intriguing signs from CERN hint at a never-before-seen form of matter – one that could be the tiniest particle cluster ever detected. Top quarks, typically too short-lived to pair up, may have briefly ...

Physicists at CERN may have glimpsed an elusive particle, 'toponium', never observed before. This discovery could ...

These can form during a phase transition—when the state of matter changes across the entire universe, like during its earliest moments. Lieu’s model focuses on shell-shaped topological defects ...

LSU and NC State meet in the Sweet 16 on Friday night (6:30 p.m. CT. ESPN) for a spot in the Elite 8. In November at the Baha Mar Pink Flamingo Championship in The Bahamas, the Tigers took down NC ...