CERN's ALICE collaboration reveals how fragile deuterons survive high-energy collisions, impacting models of cosmic rays and ...

Several years ago, scientists discovered that a single microscopic particle could rock back and forth on its own under a ...

The way time ticks forward in our universe has long stumped physicists. Now, a new set of tools from entangled atoms to black ...

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

Far beneath the Antarctic ice sheet, scientists are mapping a landscape that looks less like a frozen desert and more like an ...

This is what the creation of a Higgs Boson looks like to the Large Hadron Collider. (Credit: CERN) The Higgs boson is, if ...

Astronomers found evidence that dark matter and neutrinos may interact, hinting at a "fundamental breakthrough" that ...

But only in the last 70 years have we known for certain they were there. In 1956, physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines ...

In a paper published January 21 in Nature, a team led by scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have run complex numerical simulations of plasma flows that, while leading to turbulence, ...

Electrons are usually described as particles, but in a rare quantum material, that picture completely breaks down ...

A professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, he was a key contributor to a landmark paper that laid out how the ...

Physicists have long relied on the idea that electrons behave like tiny particles zipping through materials, even though ...