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‘Birth of science’: Particle accelerator decodes ancient Greek star map hidden in text

Ancient Greek astronomers made important observations regarding the night sky long before the first ...
Scientific American

Lost ancient Greek star catalog decoded by particle accelerator

Synchrotron radiation has revealed a star map made by the ancient astronomer Hipparchus that was thought to be lost to time ...

AI streamlines deluge of data from particle collisions

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a novel artificial ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Medieval Monks Wrote Over a Copy of an Ancient Star Catalog. Now, a Particle Accelerator is Revealing the Long-Lost Original Text

The parchments initially contained references to a star catalog and maps created during the second century B.C.E.

Glimpsing the quantum vacuum: Particle spin correlations offer insight into how visible matter emerges from 'nothing'

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have uncovered experimental evidence that ...
Scientific American

Physicists trace particles back to the quantum vacuum

Scientists have found “strange quarks” that originated as virtual particles sprung from nothing Quantum physics paints a ...
ZME Science

‘Impossible’ Particle That Crashed into Earth With 100,000 Times the Energy of the LHC May Actually Be from an Exploding Black Hole

ZME Science/AI-generated. In 2023, a subatomic particle smashed into the Mediterranean Sea with enough energy to rattle the ...