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 ...

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When the universe first burst into being, all of space was a cosmic cauldron filled with a roiling, fiery liquid of fundamental particles heated to trillions of degrees. But this seething primordial ...

Tech billionaires have pledged as much as €860 million ($1 billion) to help fund CERN’s Future Circular Collider, the next-generation particle collider and the successor to the Large Hadron Collider, ...