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The double-slit experiment is one of the most famous experiments in physics. It has puzzled scientists for nearly a century.

The German-born physicist’s most famous equation, E = mc 2, states that anything with mass has an equivalent amount of energy, and vice versa. It arose from his special theory of relativity ...

a fundamental particle that scientists successfully discovered in 2012, explaining how particles get their mass and underlying a key theory of the universe Will Sullivan On the English naturalist ...

Physicists at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have generated the highest-current, highest-peak-power electron beams, achieving 100 kiloamps for one quadrillionth of a second.