Matter

Astrophysicists from the University of Waterloo have compiled the most comprehensive 3D map of our cosmic surroundings to date. The map describes how ordinary matter is distributed in space up to a distance of about a billion light-years away from us.

Physicists working at the Blackett Physics Laboratory in Imperial College London have designed an experiment to validate one of the most tantalizing hypotheses in quantum electrodynamics: the theory that matter could be created using nothing more than pure light.

A study of 5.02 TeV proton-lead collisions at the Large Hadron Collider suggest that a new form of matter is being created.

Scientists have recreated conditions similar to those at the center of a star, using the world's most powerful X-ray laser.

The chi b(3P) is the first new particle that has been clearly observed using the Large Hadron Collider.

Contrary to claims from some scientists that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was being sabotaged from the future to save the world, it is now back up and running.

Roadrunner, the world’s fastest supercomputer, is being used to model one of the largest simulations of the distribution of matter in the universe to provide a better understanding of dark energy and dark matter.

The eROSITA X-ray telescope will search for black holes and dark matter, and may help explain why the expansion of the universe is accelerating instead of slowing down.

A new mega laser facility in California can deliver 500 trillion watts of power in a 20-nanosecond burst and will be used to provide fusion data for nuclear weapons simulations, probe the secrets of the universe and could lead to practical fusion energy.

Computational Cosmology – the use of simulations to shed light on astronomical mysteries – has provided scientists with a glimpse of what the universe may have looked like 500 million years after the Big Bang, when the first galaxies were forming in the universe’s “reionization” stage.