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Particle accelerators could turn nuclear waste into power and cut radiation 99.7%

The U.S. Department of Energy is betting $40 million that particle accelerators can crack one of nuclear power’s oldest problems: what to do with spent fuel that stays dangerously radioactive for ...

A smashing success: Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider wraps up final collisions

Just after 9 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026, final beams of oxygen ions—oxygen atoms stripped of their electrons—circulated through the twin 2.4-mile-circumference rings of the Relativistic Heavy Ion ...
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The U.S.’s Only Particle Collider Recreated Moments From the Early Universe. Now, It Has Closed—to Make Way for a New Instrument

For a mere moment after the Big Bang, no neutrons or protons are thought to have existed. These neutral and positively charged particles, respectively, make up the center of all atoms today. But ...

Flat Molecules Aren’t Actually Flat. Blame Quantum Physics

In chemistry, molecules with a "flat" geometry are often stable enough to support a wide range of reactions. But in the quantum world, that's not technically true.
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US largest particle collider wraps up final run after 25 years of discoveries

The largest particle collider in the US, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), has ...

Need for industry-linked advanced research for national growth: Kakodkar

Indore: Advanced research cannot remain confined to laboratories but must reach industry and contribute to national development, said former chairman .

RHIC Era Ends: 25 Years of Particle Research at Brookhaven Laboratory

The last collisions at RHIC took place on February 6, 2026. The particle accelerator provided insights into Big Bang matter for 25 years.
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Something so weird just happened that current physics can't explain it

Something genuinely strange has just happened in fundamental physics: an underground neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean ...

RRCAT to launch five-year beamline commissioning project in 2026

The Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology(RRCAT), one of India’s premier scientific institutions in the field of lasers, particle accelerators and cryogenics, is set to launch an ambitious ...
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Now, Then, or Both? Uncovering UChicago’s Quantum Tradition

Looming behind Regenstein Library is a bronze, mushroom cloud–shaped sculpture—Henry Moore’s Nuclear Energy. Installed in 1967, it now seems like an inconspicuous part of the campus landscape. In ...

Science on the double: How an AI-powered 'digital twin' accelerates chemistry and materials discoveries

Understanding what complex chemical measurements reveal about materials and reactions can take weeks or months of analysis. But now, an AI-powered platform developed by researchers at the Department ...

Inside the Race to Achieve the Singularity—Before Moore’s Law Runs Out

AI optimists envision a future where artificial general intelligence (AGI) surpasses human intelligence, but the path remains riddled with scientific and logistical hurdles.