The next head of Europe's CERN physics laboratory said Thursday that he favored moving forward with plans for a giant ...

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Oct. 31, 2024 — Researchers have come up with a way to turn silicon into a direct bandgap semiconductor, opening the door to the manufacture of ultrathin silicon ... Development of a Simple ...

Nigerians are celebrating P.N. Okeke, the author of the famous Physics For Senior Secondary School, a book that is widely known and used in Nigeria.

Scientists have demonstrated a new way to use high-energy particle smashups at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) to reveal subtle details about the shapes of atomic nuclei. The method is ...