John Peoples was asked in the mid-1990s about the value of doing pure scientific research — that which has no predetermined ...

Scientists from CERN have measured the speed of sound in the quark-gluon plasmas with record precision, a key step to ...

Here's what happens when quark-gluon plasma 'splashes' during the most energetic particle collisions by Brookhaven National Laboratory edited by Stephanie Baum, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors' notes ...

Theorists predicted the existence of a sixth quark in the 1970s, and no one imagined that finding the particle would take another two decades. On March 2, 1995, the CDF and DZero collaborations at ...

The British Science Association, founders of the British Science Festival, has announced an exciting and diverse programme of ...

Smashing atomic nuclei together at mind-bending speeds recreates the fiery conditions of the early universe and scientists ...

The British Science Association, founders of the British Science Festival, has announced an exciting and diverse programme of ...

New data from particle collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), an "atom smasher" at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, reveals how the ...

As few as five electrons in a semiconductor can exhibit collective behaviour, forming a “Coulomb liquid”, according to ...

An international team of scientists has published a new report that moves towards a better understanding of the behaviour of some of the heaviest ...

The team suggests that if there are small mountains on pulsars, China’s FAST (Five- hundred-meter Aperture Spherical ...