Newswise — A new paper in Nature Communications could put scientists on the path to understanding one of the wildest, hottest, and most densely packed places in the universe: a…
Category: Particle Physics
Argonne Postdoctoral Researcher Zhiwan Xu Receives Prestigious 2025 Dissertation Award in Nuclear Physics
Newswise — Zhiwan Xu, a postdoctoral researcher at Argonne, was honored with the award for her innovative work on quantum chromodynamics and the quark-gluon plasma, a state of matter that…
Watching Gold Change Structure at Extreme Pressures
Newswise — The inside of giant planets can reach pressures more than one million times the Earth’s atmosphere. As a result of that intense pressure, materials can adopt unexpected structures…
NASA’s Roman Could Bring New Waves of Information on Galaxy’s Stars
Newswise — A team of researchers has confirmed stars ring loud and clear in a “key” that will harmonize well with the science goals and capabilities of NASA’s upcoming Nancy…
Celeritas Code Sets Fast Pace for Particle Physics Discoveries
Newswise — High energy physicists run on a treadmill that keeps speeding up. Their collider experiments smash particles at dazzling speeds and energies. Detectors identify and track the multitudes of…
Deepfakes and AI in the Courtroom: Report Calls for Legal Reforms to Address a Troubling Trend
From cell phone footage to bodycam and surveillance clips, U.S. courtrooms are awash with video these days, with more than 80% of court cases hinging to some degree on video…
Toward Understanding the Emergence of Hadron Mass
Newswise — NEWPORT NEWS, VA — Deep in the heart of matter, some numbers don’t add up. For example, while protons and neutrons are made of quarks, nature’s fundamental building blocks bound…
Four ORNL Researchers Named 2025 American Physical Society Fellows
Newswise — Researchers Sang-Ho Kim, An-Ping Li, Bronson Messer and Zac Ward of the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been named Fellows of the American Physical Society…
Rare Particle Pairs Point to Primordial Soup’s Temperature at Different Stages
Newswise — UPTON, N.Y. — At the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facility for nuclear physics research at DOE’s Brookhaven…
The Pocket-Sized Tool Transforming Physics Learning
Newswise — We can’t see or feel them, but particles from space are around us all the time. These subatomic particles, called muons, are created when cosmic rays hit the…
