The parchments initially contained references to a star catalog and maps created during the second century B.C.E.

Ancient Greek astronomers made important observations regarding the night sky long before the first ...

In February 2023, a neutrino with an energy 100,000 times greater than anything the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) could produce crashed into Earth, sending shockwaves through the physics community. The ...

Synchrotron radiation has revealed a star map made by the ancient astronomer Hipparchus that was thought to be lost to time ...

A new heat exchange system between the LHC and the French town of Ferney-Voltaire is directing waste heat energy from CERN's accelerator to warm thousands of homes and businesses.

Observing such an explosion could unlock secrets of the universe. Like cracking a cosmic piñata, an exploding PBH would ...

Large fire at a leading research facility in Darmstadt forced officials to indefinitely postpone test phase of new particle ...

With FAIR, one of the world's largest facilities for fundamental research in physics is being built in Darmstadt. A major ...

Scientists have activated the smallest particle accelerator ever built—a tiny device roughly the size of a coin. This advancement opens new doors for particle acceleration, promising exciting ...

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a novel artificial ...

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