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Fusion Energy: EAST Tokamak in China achieves Key Milestone

Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) in China has successfully maintained a steady-state high-confinement plasma operation for 1,066 seconds breaking its own earlier record of...

Progress in Antiproton Transportation  

Big Bang produced equal amounts of matter and antimatter which should have annihilated each other leaving behind an empty universe. However, matter survived and...

Particle colliders for study of “Very early universe”: Muon collider demonstrated

Particle accelerators are used as research tools for the study of very early universe. Hadron colliders (particularly CERN’s Large Hadron Collider LHC) and electron-positron...

Fusion Ignition becomes a Reality; Energy Breakeven Achieved at Lawrence Laboratory

The scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have achieved fusion ignition and energy break-even. On 5th December 2022, the research team conducted controlled fusion...

Study of Early Universe: REACH Experiment to detect elusive 21-cm line from Cosmic Hydrogen 

Observation of 26 cm radio signals, formed due to hyperfine transition of cosmic hydrogen offer an alternative tool to the study of early universe....

Mass of Neutrinos is less than 0.8 eV

KATRIN experiment mandated to weigh neutrinos has announced a more precise estimate of the upper limit of its mass - neutrinos weigh at most...

What are we ultimately made up of? What are the Fundamental Building Blocks of the Universe?

Ancient people thought we are made up of four ‘elements’ - water, earth, fire and air; which we now know are not elements. Presently,...

Gravitational-wave Background (GWB): A Breakthrough in Direct Detection

Gravitational wave was directly detected for the first time in 2015 after a century of its prediction by Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity in 1916....

PENTATRAP Measures Changes in Mass of an Atom When it Absorbs and Releases Energy

The researchers at Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics have successfully measured infinitesimally small change in the mass of individual atoms following quantum jumps...

Unveiling the Mystery of Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry of the Universe with Neutrino Oscillation Experiments

T2K, a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment in Japan, has recently reported an observation where they have detected a strong evidence of a difference between...

Why ‘Matter’ Dominates the Universe and not ‘Antimatter’? In Quest of Why Universe Exists

In the very early universe, soon after the Big Bang, the ‘matter’ and the ‘antimatter’ both existed in equal amount. However, for the reasons...

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