Fashionable wood burning stoves are the UK’s single biggest source of particulate air pollution and produce three times more of the toxins than road traffic, Government data shows. DEFRA figures reveal domestic combustion created more than 47,000 tonnes of PM2.5 pollution in 2019 — 43 per cent of all PM2.5 particles produced. The vast majority … Read more
A new type of ‘exotic particle’ that is made up of four-quarks – also known as a tetraquark – has been discovered by scientists using Large Hadron Collider data. A team from the University of Manchester said the discovery involved sifting through datasets from the first and second collider runs – between 2009 and 2018. … Read more
A new particle accelerator four times bigger than the Large Hadron Collider is a step closer after CERN agreed to back the £19 billion (€21bn) project. The Future Circle Collider (FCC) will have a 62 mile (100km) circumference and be six times more powerful than the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The next generation particle-smashing machine … Read more