About 13.8 billion years ago, the entire cosmos consisted of a tiny, hot, dense ball of energy that suddenly exploded. That’s ...

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Atomic physicists “are jacks of all trades,” according to Alex Sushkov. “You have to have the idea, design the experiment, ...

Physicists have done a remarkable job explaining the chaos of the universe with well-behaved equations, but certain situations remain mysterious. Among these are collections of many tiny particles — ...