“Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.” – Niels Bohr. This seemingly paradoxical statement, which by any measure would appear to provide evidence against the ...

The T2K experiment, whose primary purpose is to study neutrino interactions at a large distance from their source, has detected 6 electron neutrino candidate events based on the data collected before ...

Physicists are part of the huge NOvA Neutrino Experiment that just published two articles about the first experimental observations of muon neutrinos changing to electron neutrinos. The discovery ...

A team of Chinese researchers has conducted an experiment that is nicknamed the "Chinese artificial sun" using the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) fusion device. The EAST device ...

Measuring up: an electron scattering experiment yields a small proton radius. (Courtesy: Jefferson Lab) For nearly a decade the size of the particle that makes up the bulk of the universe’s visible ...

Researchers have succeeded in simultaneously observing the reorganizations of atomic positions and electron distribution during the transformation of the “smart material” vanadium dioxide from a ...

Setup of the three high-resolution spectrometers in the A1 experimental hall, which were used to detect 6 H. Credit: Ryoko Kino, Josef Pochodzalla For the first time, a research team has successfully ...

The T2K experiment in Japan has observed six particle events that indicate the oscillation of muon neutrinos into electron neutrinos, a long-sought signal that allows scientists to better understand a ...

When J.J. Thomson stood before the Royal Institution in 1897 to share his latest findings, few in the audience likely realized just how much physics was about to change. The particles he described — ...

How many electrons are there in the Universe? One bold theory suggests that there could only be one, although this theory has ...