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An interview with an inspiring particle physicist from Pune who 'happens to be a woman'
Particle physicist, Professor Rohini Godbole, who was awarded the Padma Shri in 2019 and the French…
Meet Rohini Godbole, a scientist who just happens to be a woman
On this International Day for Women and Girls in Science, Business Insider India spoke with an este…
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A weirdly wobbly 'muon' particle might revolutionize physics by revealing a 5th force of nature or another dimension
Muons are like fat electrons. They're everywhere. But the world's top physicists can't explain why …
Sonam Sheth,Jessica Orwig
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Did Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket make a hole in Earth's ionosphere? A US space physicist claims it did
A Falcon 9 rocket launched by Elon Musk's SpaceX earlier this month has made a temporary hole in Ea…
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Images from the Solar Orbiter spacecraft reveal tiny flares shooting from a 'hole' in the sun. They could explain how the sun blasts Earth with charged particles.
Solar Orbiter's discovery of these jets, called "picoflares," could solve the mystery of how the su…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Meet muons — tiny subatomic particles that indicate there could be a fifth fundamental force of nature
Tiny subatomic particles called muons are defying the known laws of physics. Scientists believe the…
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‘God Particle’ Could Be ‘Catastrophic’ For The Universe: Stephen Hawking
Professor Hawking wrote: “The Higgs potential has the worrisome feature that it might become megast…
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An underground dark-matter experiment may have stumbled on the 'holy grail': a new particle that could upend the laws of physics
If researchers have detected an axion particle forged inside the sun, the potentially "Nobel Prize-…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A telescope submerged nearly a mile underwater in the world's deepest lake is hunting for ghostly particles from space
A telescope underwater in Russia's Lake Baikal is looking for neutrinos - particles that can pass t…
Aylin Woodward
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Physicists made a superconductor that works at room temperature. It could one day give rise to high-speed floating trains.
The superconductor only works at pressures roughly equal to those in the Earth's core, but it shows…
Susie Neilson
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This Cloud Computing Vendor Is Helping Particle Physicists Unlock The Universe's Mysteries
"Research is not something we’ve targeted as a company yet — we were more focused on pure commercia…
Kevin McLaughlin
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This Particle Physicist Just Won A Huge Award For Studying A Colossal Block Of Ice
Each year, Smithsonian recognizes ten of the most innovative people in America. Some of this year…
Jessica Orwig
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The US is building its first new particle collider in decades on Long Island. Stephen Hawking called the technology a 'time machine.'
Scientists already know that protons are made up of even tinier particles called quarks, which are …
Aria Bendix,Aria Bendix
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This ghostly particle could explain why you exist
Now, in a study published Monday in the journal Physical Review Letters, IceCube researchers come t…
Ali Sundermier
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Particle X could be the biggest physics breakthrough in decades
"This is by far the most exciting thing that has happened in particle physics over the last three d…
Meghan Bartels
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Physicists cracked the mystery of teleportation - but it's nothing like what you see in Star Trek
And the procedures that are used for individual particles simply do not scale. You cannot simply sc…
Gene Kim,Jessica Orwig
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The US military released a study on time travel and warp drives - here's what a theoretical physicist thinks of it
"You can't go faster than the speed of light. But what you can can imagine doing is effectively twi…
Dave Mosher
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Physicists Make Big Leap In Quantum Teleportation
Like a game of billiards, a third photon was sent to hit the first photon in the optical fibre obli…
AFP
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Physicists Have Built A Time Machine Simulator
The team of physicists simulated a particle traveling through a CTC by firing pairs of entangled li…
Kelly Dickerson
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The world's oldest Nobel Prize winner, a 96-year-old physicist, says his new invention will give everyone in the world clean, cheap energy
Down in his basement, Ashkin now works with his curved spine hunched over a workbench. The cane he …