The Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States awarded the Churchill Scholarship to David Balut, a senior in physics.
Trillions of neutrinos—nearly massless, neutrally charged particles—pass through us every second, but we only acknowledge ...
Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.
Cosmic rays are extremely fast, charged particles that travel through space at nearly the speed of light. The Amaterasu ...
The famed collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory has ended operations, but if all goes to plan, a new collider will rise ...
"It highlights gravity's possible hidden complexity and invites a reevaluation of where dark matter effects originate." ...
Published January 7 in the journal Nature, one paper tackled the age-old problem of nature’s construction with a bit of a twist: it suggests that living networks, like our brain, may use some of the ...
This is what the creation of a Higgs Boson looks like to the Large Hadron Collider. (Credit: CERN) The Higgs boson is, if nothing else, the most expensive particle of all time. It's a bit of an unfair ...
This puzzle is known as the problem of time, and it remains one of the most persistent obstacles to a unified theory of ...
In 2023, a subatomic particle called a neutrino crashed into Earth with such a high amount of energy that it should have been ...
Observing such an explosion could unlock secrets of the universe. Like cracking a cosmic piñata, an exploding PBH would ...
The aurora borealis has been the ultimate atmospheric tease for ages. We knew what ...