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Space is packed with all sorts of weird and unexpected stuff, but this humongous, spinning string-thing raises a whole new ...

A comprehensive review explores how particles containing heavy quarks (known as charm and bottom hadrons) interact in a hot, dense environment called hadronic matter. The authors have published a ...

The cosmos still holds many surprises for us. A recent study suggests that our position in the Universe might be more unique than previously thought. Astronomers long believed that the distribution of ...

Most of the universe is made up of dark matter and dark energy. The majority of everything else is dispersed throughout space as tiny particles.

For the past quarter-century, scientists using a particle collider on Long Island have been smashing the nuclei of gold atoms together at nearly the speed of light to create the hottest matter ever ...

A new study broadens the horizon of knowledge about how matter behaves under extreme conditions and helps to solve some great unknowns about the origin of the universe. An international team of ...