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The time-dependent solution of one of the most basic models in field theory has applications from nuclear to condensed-matter physics.

Liquid helium-4 is integral in a source of slow-moving neutrons, with a five-fold increase in yield in density.

Theorists gain insight into how the quark-gluon plasma distinguishes left from right.

New calculation of quark matter properties tells us what an exotic quark-neutron star might look like.

An effective field theory on a lattice is applied successfully to nuclei as large as carbon-12.

A recent theory of high-energy bottom quark jet quenching in nuclear collisions accentuates the novelty of heavy quark jet dynamics in strongly coupled quark-gluon plasmas discovered at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.

The STAR detector at RHIC has measured a signal that may indicate parity violation occurs in metastable regions of the superdense matter.

The Moon might be stranger than we think.

A huge, predicted atomic parity violation has now been observed in ytterbium, further aiding tabletop experimental searches for physics beyond the standard model that complement ongoing efforts at high-energy colliders.

The critical point is one of the main features of the phase diagram of strongly interacting quark-gluon matter. Finding this critical point in the lab will require luck and an understanding of the possible experimental signatures.

The physics community was stunned to learn in the 1950s that some events, unlike billiard ball collisions, follow different rules in their mirror-image versions.

Energetic particle jets created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions might create detectable shock waves as they travel through the quark-gluon plasma.

Particles containing strange quarks become lighter when embedded within nuclei, according to experiments that confirm an effect seen previously with up and down quarks.