The current Standard Model of particle physics begins to unravel when probed much beyond the range of current particle accelerators. So no matter what the Large Hadron Collider finds, it is going to ...

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In Switzerland, at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), scientists smash protons together at close to the speed of light in the hopes of revolutionizing our understanding of the universe. If they succeed, ...

One of my favorite quotes about science comes not from a practicing scientist but from a comedian, Dara O’Briain. He brilliantly summarized the whole point of science and how it makes progress: ...

The field of physics may be turned on its head soon, said renowned physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed during a live lecture from the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada. For one, ...

It seems like everybody wants a revolution in energy tech. From Green New Deal proponents to Palo Alto’s pundits where we hear that “clean tech” is on the cusp of “a 10x exponential process which will ...

Chaoyang Lu from the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei talks to Michael Banks about planning Quantum 2020 – a major online conference – and the future of quantum technologies ...