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Excitation of thorium-229 brings a working nuclear clock closer

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Peter Higgs: the story behind his interview with Physics World

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Dielectric laser accelerator creates focused electron beam

Advancements in nanoscience, lasers and vacuum drove breakthrough

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Peter Higgs: Nobel-prize-winning particle theorist dies aged 94

Brazil becomes first Latin American country to join CERN

Seeing the wood for the trees: could forests be used as neutrino detectors?

Research headlines

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Heat capacity measurements reveal Majorana fermions

Researchers in Japan and Korea say they have found evidence for the existence of these elusive quasiparticles in the thermodynamic behaviour of a Kitaev magnet

REBCO high-temperature superconductors are ideal for tokamak magnets, study suggests

Extensive research confirms material’s ability to create compact yet powerful fields

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Quasiparticles called merons appear in a synthetic antiferromagnet for the first time

Collective topological chiral spin textures could lead to new concepts for spintronics devices

Compton camera measures gamma-ray polarization in nuclear physics experiment

Efficient detection could provide insights into rare nuclei

Evidence for ‘quark coalescence’ found in LHC collisions

LHCb sees increased baryon production at low transverse momenta

FRIB finds five new isotopes in platinum fragments

Experiment could shed light on colliding neutron stars

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IHEP seeks quantum opportunities to fast-track fundamental science

China’s Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) in Beijing is carrying out pioneering work in quantum computing and quantum machine learning to broaden its particle physics programme

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Collaboration shapes prioritization within DESY’s quantum ecosystem

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Kink in cosmic ray spectrum puzzles astrophysicists

Observation suggests a need to rethink origins of cosmic rays

New positron source could give lepton colliders a boost

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Excavation of huge caverns complete for the US Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment

Space will hold the particle detector modules for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment

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Nuclear-powered spacecraft: why dreams of atomic rockets are back on

Richard Corfield examines whether nuclear power could launch NASA’s next generation of rockets into space

Ambrogio Fasoli: new European fusion boss wants a demonstration fusion plant

Ambrogio Fasoli, head of EUROfusion, tells Senne Starckx that Europe must ramp up its efforts towards demonstrating commercial fusion

Quantum innovation: how strategic focus can turbocharge the technology roadmap

Celia Merzbacher explains how QED-C is seeking to accelerate quantum research, technology innovation and commercial opportunities

Influential US particle-physics panel calls for muon collider development

The “P5” panel of US particle physicists says that work on developing a future muon collider could allow the US to regain the “energy frontier”

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Fermilab’s SQMS Center addresses all aspects of the ‘quantum puzzle’

The US Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems (SQMS) Center uses enabling technologies from Fermilab to realize practical applications of quantum computing

Evidence grows for deconfined quark matter in neutron-star cores

New study applies Bayesian inference to multiple observations

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CERN QTI: harnessing big science to accelerate quantum innovation

Benjamin Frisch explains how CERN’s Quantum Technology Initiative is fostering collaboration between the high-energy physics and quantum tech communities

QUANT-NET’s testbed innovations: reimagining the quantum network

Joe McEntee visits Berkeley Lab to learn about QUANT-NET's quantum network testbed for distributed quantum computing applications

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