Scientists have observed the largest-known rotating structure in the cosmos - a gargantuan thread-like assemblage of hundreds ...

By studying faint distortions in galaxy shapes across a vast region of sky, scientists probed the hidden structure of the universe. In the standard picture of the universe, nearly everything is hidden ...

An international team of researchers says it has spotted the largest rotating structure of dark matter and gas-rich galaxies.

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Nucleons, comprising protons and neutrons, are not elementary particles but are built from quarks and gluons held together by the strong nuclear force. At typical inter-nucleon distances, effective ...

Scientists have now mapped the forces acting inside a proton, showing in unprecedented detail how quarks -- the tiny particles within -- respond when hit by high-energy photons. The international team ...

Researchers have discovered that not all atoms in a liquid are in motion and that some remain stationary regardless of the ...

The filament of matter stretches 50 million light-years, and contains a row of galaxies 5.5 million light-years long that are ...

Density Functional Theory (DFT) has emerged as a pivotal tool in quantum mechanical simulations for investigating the electronic structure of matter, offering a balance between computational ...