Quantum physics is usually associated with particle colliders and vacuum chambers, not with the proteins quietly shuttling energy inside our cells. Yet a new line of research argues that protons in ...

In the air people breathe, the water on Earth, the stars in the sky and more, atoms are the building blocks that make up the ...

Inside what looks like a simple block of frozen water, quantum mechanics is quietly rewriting the rules of chemistry. New calculations are revealing how protons tunnel, bonds flicker and molecules ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

When two high-energy protons from the counter-circulating beams of the LHC collide, the entropy of the interacting quarks and gluons is virtually identical to the entropy of the hadrons that ...

Inside high-energy proton collisions, quarks and gluons briefly form a dense, boiling state before cooling into ordinary particles. Researchers expected this transition to change how disordered the ...

After years of failed searches, CERN has finally caught a needle in a subatomic haystack: a heavy relative of the proton called Ξcc⁺. Ξ (or Xi) is a Greek letter pronounced like the word “Zye” (rhymes ...

Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have discovered a new particle, the Ξ cc ⁺, (“Xi cc plus”), a heavier cousin ...

An international team of physicists has studied how particles are produced in high-energy electron–proton collisions through the lens of entanglement entropy Entanglement entropy has emerged as a new ...

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Electron-proton coupled motion is widespread in both natural and synthetic materials. The best-known mechanism is proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET), which is vital to bioenergetics, cellular ...