Large Hadron Collider finds 1st evidence of the heaviest antimatter particle yet

Scientists at CERN’s ALICE detector are replicating conditions found during the Big Bang, attempting to get to the bottom of how matter came to dominate over antimatter. An illustration shows…

Dark Matter May Have Existed Before The Big Bang, Study Finds

Representation of the the Universe’s expansion. (NASA) In case dark matter didn’t seem mysterious enough, a new study proposes that it could have arisen before the Big Bang. Conventional thinking goes that the Big Bang was the beginning…

Physicists Find Particle That Only Has Mass When Moving in One Direction

The semi-Dirac fermion was spotted at the crossing point of two energy paths. (Shao et al., Physical Review X, 2024) Scientists have made a satisfying and intriguing physics discovery some 16…

MIT Unveils Exotic Matter Breakthrough Set to Revolutionize Quantum Computing

Researchers at MIT have predicted that non-Abelian anyons, a unique form of fractionalized electrons with memory-like properties, could be created in moiré materials. This advance could enable more reliable quantum…