particle
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The particle carried an astonishing energy of around 220 PeV, more than ten times greater than previously detected high energy neutrinos, and researchers still do not know exactly where it came from.
From Science Daily • May 24, 2026
The mystery centered on the muon, a short lived particle that resembles an electron but is about 200 times heavier.
From Science Daily • May 19, 2026
The study also builds on earlier work by Caltech physicist Steven Frautschi and UC Berkeley physicist Geoffrey Chew, who pioneered the bootstrap approach in particle physics during the 1960s.
From Science Daily • May 19, 2026
Correction: this article was updated to make clear that the 30% cut announced to funding for particle physics and astronomy research was "likely" rather than confirmed, as originally implied.
From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026
Several days later, on the bus to Oxford, the notion came to me that each TMV particle should be thought of as a tiny crystal growing like other crystals through the possession of cozy corners.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
Vocabulary lists containing particle
Quantum of Vocabulary: the Parlance of Particle Physics
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Word Generation Science - Introductory Chemistry Concepts
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"Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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