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'Ghostly' neutrinos spotted inside the world's largest particle accelerator for the first timeSignatures of neutrinos, or ghostly particles that rarely interact with others, were tentatively spotted in the Large Hadron Collider in 2021. Now, physicists have confirmed they are real.
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Atomic Clock Is So Precise It Won't Lose a Second for 15 Billion YearsThe most precise clock ever made could hold time accurately for the entire age of the universe.
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Higgs Boson Confirms Reigning Physics Model Yet AgainThe Higgs boson decays into matter-carrying particles known as tau leptons, yet another confirmation of the standard model of physics.
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Misbehaving Particles Poke Holes in Reigning Physics TheoryPhysicists at the BaBar experiment have seen evidence pointing to a hole in the Standard Model of physics.
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Bizarre Particles Keep Flying Out of Antarctica's Ice, and They Might Shatter Modern PhysicsThere's something out there that physicists have never seen before, and it's coming up from the bottom of the Earth. Scientists think it's a brand-new particle.
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Oddly heavy particle may have just broken the reigning model of particle physicsAn ultraprecise measurement of the mass of the W boson may diverge from the Standard Model, a long-reigning framework that governs the strange world of quantum physics.
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What Are Elementary Particles?They're the smallest of the small.
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What is the Standard Model, the subatomic physics theory that has been tested more than any other?The Standard Model is the modern physical understanding of three of the four forces of nature: electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force and the weak nuclear force.
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Mystery of Weird Sky-Glow Named 'STEVE' Finally SolvedEnigmatic STEVE is somewhat like an aurora...and somewhat different.
