Spin orientation preference may point to a previously unknown influence of the strong nuclear force—and a way to measure its local fluctuations. Certain particles that emerge from a hot soup of matter ...

A breakthrough design combining a multi-periodic (Pd/Fe/FeO/MgO)4 spin tunnel junction and the coexistence of skyrmions and bimerons has enabled unprecedented control over electron spins. This ...

Paul Sutter is an astrophysicist at The Ohio State University and the chief scientist at COSI science center. Sutter is also host of "Ask a Spaceman" and "Space Radio," and he leads AstroTours around ...

Exotic spin-dependent interactions represent a promising avenue for probing physics beyond the Standard Model. These interactions, hypothesised to be mediated by new light bosons, couple to the ...

Scientists on the ATLAS experiment explored the polarization of W bosons to test the Higgs mechanism and gain a deeper understanding of the first moments after the Big Bang. After the Big Bang, the ...

A team of researchers has created a new, more precise algorithm for simulating particle interactions when a single impurity is introduced into a Fermi sea. The algorithm shows that when these ...

Electrons are proficient little magicians. They seem to flit about an atom without tracing a particular path, they frequently appear to be in two places at once, and their behavior in silicon ...

For the best part of 30 years physicists have been unable to answer a seemingly simple question: where does proton spin come from? As Edwin Cartlidge reports, the answer may finally be within reach ...

Physicists from the Atlas and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider announced Thursday that they are "confident" a particle discovered last summer is indeed a Higgs boson. The long-sought ...