particle

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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

This marks the first particle discovery using the upgraded LHCb detector.

From Science Daily • Mar. 19, 2026

Most particle physicists feel, as Leon Lederman remarked in a 1985 PBS documentary, that the Standard Model lacks elegance and simplicity.

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