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🎖️ The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis!

The laureates used a series of experiments to demonstrate that the bizarre properties of the quantum world can be made concrete in a system big enough to be held in the hand.

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“It’s quite an exciting field at the moment,” says Zohreh Davoudi, a theoretical physicist at the University of Maryland. “Several groups are pushing to reach the milestones that we have set in enabling truly quantum simulations of nature.” www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/into... 🧪 #physics
Into the quantum realm
New technologies are enabling scientists to tackle previously elusive physics problems.
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A quantum leap for antimatter measurements

The demonstration of first antimatter quantum bit paves the way for substantially improved tests of nature’s fundamental symmetries.

📸 Physicist Barbara Latacz working in the BASE experiment.

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The winners of the CERN Photowalk 2025 🏆

CERN has announced the 3 winners and 18 runners-up of the CERN Photowalk 2025, a behind-the-scenes photo competition, which received 165 submissions.

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Scientists know of about 1,000 strong gravitational lenses right now, “but with Rubin we should be able to get to a few tens of thousands,” says Phil Marshall, Deputy Director of Operations for the Rubin Observatory and Senior Scientist at SLAC. www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/dial... 🧪 #physics
Dialing gravitational lensing research up to 11
NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, funded by the US National Science Foundation and US Department of Energy's Office of Science, will add an unprecedented amount of cosmological data to the study of t...
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The majority of particle interactions during the LHC’s lead-ion run—more than 98%—result from what are actually near misses. In those cases, even though the two nuclei never touch, strange things can still happen. www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/lhc-... 🧪 #physics
LHC near-miss collisions turn lead into gold
In a recent study, ALICE scientists measured the way that lead ions colliding in the LHC sometimes transform into gold and other new nuclei.
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This is the first time scientists have found a matter-antimatter asymmetry in proton-like particles. It took more than a decade of searching, but one exceptionally dedicated graduate student finally caught a lucky break. www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/spot... 🧪 #physics
Spot the difference
LHCb’s discovery of proton-like particles behaving differently than their antimatter counterparts brings scientists one step closer to finding out why antimatter disappeared in the early universe.
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If your dataset is so voluminous, or it arrives at such high velocity, or it contains such great variety, that you must reimagine the way you use it—you have a big data problem. How do you solve it? 🧪 #physics

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Explain it in 60 seconds: big data
How do you solve a problem like big data?
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“We’re in the situation where we know something weird is going on, but we don't know what it is, and we don't know why it's happening,” says Phil Marshall, a Senior Scientist at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/a-ne... 🧪 #physics
A new side to dark energy steps into the light
The long and continuing quest to understand dark energy has entered exciting new territory.
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"The team was now sure that they were seeing something new, and they had a few ideas about what it could be. But before claiming a discovery, they wanted to find out what the theorists had to say." www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/dont... 🧪 #physics
Don’t call it toponium
A large and unexpected excess of top quark pairs has the physics community excited, but the interpretation is still up for debate.
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Yesterday, at the annual Rencontres de Moriond conference taking place in La Thuile, Italy, the LHCb collaboration at CERN reported a new milestone in our understanding of the subtle yet profound differences between matter and antimatter. www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/a-ne... 🧪 #physics
A new piece in the matter-antimatter puzzle
The LHCb experiment at CERN has revealed a fundamental asymmetry in the behavior of particles called baryons.
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