The Pauli exclusion principle is a cornerstone of the Standard Model of particle physics and is essential for the structure ...

After 25 years, Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider—the U.S.’s largest particle collider—has ...

Cosmology and quantum physics both offer tantalizing possibilities that we inhabit just one reality among many. But testing that idea is challenging.

Tammy Ma, director the Livermore Institute for Fusion Technology, can explain why her work with nuclear fusion is a step toward abundant clean energy.

Physicists have watched a quantum fluid do something once thought almost impossible: stop moving. In experiments with ...

Right now, molecules in the air are moving around you in chaotic and unpredictable ways. To make sense of such systems, ...

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

When the universe first burst into being, all of space was a cosmic cauldron filled with a roiling, fiery liquid of ...

The UK is scrapping more than £250mn of planned funding for four big physics infrastructure projects, including an upgrade of the Cern particle accelerator led since last month by a senior British ...

Toshihide Maskawa, 2008 Nobel laureate in physics, once struggled with homework and poor grades, yet his curiosity and ...

The UK government is to slash by 30 percent its funding for astronomy, particle and nuclear physics in a move branded as disastrous for the field and likely to affect a generation of researchers.