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A research team is using astrophysical explosions to understand the mysterious forces at work in some of the smallest ...

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EADaily, . Scientists from The University of Tennessee, together with an international team at the ISOLDE facility at CERN, ...

Physicists at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, have used supercomputer simulations to predict a specific gravitational-wave fingerprint that would confirm quark-gluon plasma forms inside the ...

Scientists have harnessed the power of artificial intelligence to unlock secrets hidden within the ...

Gold and other heavy elements are born in some of the universe’s most violent events—but scientists still struggle to understand the nuclear steps that create them. Now, nuclear physicists have ...

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Gold cannot form until certain unstable atomic nuclei break apart. Exactly how those nuclear transformations unfold has long been difficult to ...

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Cambridge scientists have discovered a light-powered chemical reaction that lets researchers modify complex drug molecules at the final stages of development. Unlike traditional methods that rely on ...