Unusual atom helps in search for universe's building blocks
An unusual form of cesium atom is helping a University of Queensland-led research team unmask unknown particles that make up the universe.
An unusual form of cesium atom is helping a University of Queensland-led research team unmask unknown particles that make up the universe.
General Physics
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Optics & Photonics
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General Physics
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Quantum Physics
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Quantum Physics
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General Physics
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Condensed Matter
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A team of researchers from the University of Warsaw in Poland, the Institute Pascal CNRS in France, the Military University of Technology in Poland and the British University of Southampton has shown that it is possible to ...
Optics & Photonics
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Stone samples brought back to Earth from asteroid Ryugu have had their elemental composition analyzed using an artificially generated muon beam from the particle accelerator in J-PARC. Researchers found a number of important ...
Planetary Sciences
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