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Scientists discovered “magic” top quarks at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, demonstrating how the facility has evolved to support quantum computing research. Researchers at ATLAS observed ...

For over a decade, confusion over the size of the proton has held scientists back. Disagreeing measurements of the subatomic particle’s radius meant that scientists couldn’t test one of their key ...

The particle collider smashes together atomic nuclei—comprised of particles called protons and neutrons—to break them into their smaller components. Tiffany Bowman / Brookhaven National Laboratory For ...

The Sun unleashes a torrent of charged particles. Some of them slam into the Earth’s atmosphere, triggering breathtaking auroras in the night sky. But for equipment that’s orbiting our planet in outer ...

I peeked in on the house-sized particle detector known as STAR just after it took its last-ever snapshot of one of the most extreme types of fireball ever created. Inside, the conditions just after ...

A magnitude 4.2 earthquake hit San Ramon on Monday morning amid a swarm of 21 temblors in the area, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The largest quake hit just after 7 a.m. about 4 kilometers ...

There were no immediate reports of injury or damage. Surveillance cameras at 7-Eleven stores in the San Ramon area did capture goods falling from shelves. The most powerful of Monday’s quakes was a ...

SAN RAMON, Calif. (KGO) -- Dozens of earthquakes shook the Bay Area Monday morning as a swarm of temblors struck near San Ramon, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The largest was a 4.2 ...

A new viral video released by the Pentagon for their Swarm Forge initiative shows a single operator hitting three targets with three drones simultaneously. Auterion carried out the demonstration using ...

Earthquakes usually strike without warning. But sometimes they come in clusters — dozens or even hundreds of small quakes concentrated in one area over days or weeks. Geologists call these clusters ...