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'Aquila Booster' challenges theoretical limits of particle acceleration in pulsar wind nebulae

The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) has detected PeV (10 15 eV) gamma-ray emission from a pulsar wind nebula powered by PSR J1849-0001 in the constellation Aquila, marking the ...

One of the Largest Physics Surveys Ever Finds No One Agrees on Anything

Well, around a similar time, the American Physical Society (APS) invited researchers and science enthusiasts to chime in on ...
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Professor challenges long-held assumptions of symmetry in physics

A groundbreaking experiment--reveals 'symmetry' in physics doesn't always behave as scientists once believed. Mississippi State Professor of Physics Dipangkar Dutta is a principal investigator on a ...
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Gary Horowitz awarded Dirac Medal for contributions to theoretical physics

Joining the sweeping theory of general relativity to the probabilistic world of quantum mechanics is perhaps the greatest challenge in modern physics. Each has been borne out on its own scale by ...
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Strange new shapes may rewrite the laws of physics

Illustration of a set of real zeros of a graph polynomial (middle) and two Feynman diagrams. Credit: Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences How can the behavior of elementary particles ...
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UCSB’s David Gross wins Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

The Breakthrough Prize Foundation today announced physicist David J. Gross, of UC Santa Barbara’s Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, among the winners of the 2026 Breakthrough Prizes, honoring ...