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particle

[pahr-ti-kuhl] / ˈpɑr tɪ kəl /


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The team plans to refine its predictions for future experiments and investigate how this framework connects to particle physics and other unanswered questions about the early universe.

From Science Daily • Mar. 30, 2026

TAE creates something like a smoke ring of plasma and aims high-powered neutral particle beams at it to heat and stabilize it, spinning the plasma, like keeping a toy top in motion.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

Several of the chapters, about particle accelerators and fusion reactors, take readers on cursory tours of facilities that have at best a tangential connection to space.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

This result matches predictions based on a previously discovered related particle, the Ξcc⁺⁺.

From Science Daily • Mar. 19, 2026

In fact, everything in particle physics was about to get a whole lot more complicated.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson