Quantum physics paints a strange picture of the world, one filled with spooky connections, unsettling uncertainties ...

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

Time crystals, a collection of particles that "tick"—or move back and forth in repeating cycles—were first theorized and then ...

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

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

Neutrino particles have extremely small masses, yet there are so many of them that they carve out the large-scale structure ...

Can a single particle have a temperature? It may seem impossible with our standard understanding of temperature, but ...

They slip through your skin, your walls, and the whole Earth without leaving a mark. Neutrinos earn the nickname “ghost ...

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

Launched on Dec. 20, it would travel for the next 23 days on a NASA balloon along the very highest reaches of the atmosphere, ...

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology researchers measure cosmic rays in far-off ...

A strange, glowing form of matter called dusty plasma turns out to be incredibly sensitive to magnetic fields. Researchers found that even weak fields can change how tiny particles grow, simply by ...