Research reveals how close human vision comes to sensing the smallest possible unit of light. Here’s why that matters for ...

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

The famed collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory has ended operations, but if all goes to plan, a new collider will rise ...

In the very first moments after the Big Bang, the universe looked nothing like it does today. Instead of stars, atoms, or ...

Scientists recreate the early universe to study the first liquid ever formed and uncover how quarks moved through primordial matter.

Learn how physicists recreated the early universe’s primordial soup, known as quark-gluon plasma, and discovered how it responds when particles race through it.

The universe comes with a built‑in speed cap, a hard limit that shapes everything from how stars shine to how cause and effect unfold. That limit is usually described as the speed of light, yet the ...

A new discovery shows that messy, stray light can be used to clean up quantum systems instead of disrupting them. University of Iowa researchers found that unwanted photons produced by lasers can be ...

Photons, for centuries both a puzzle and a tool, continue to help scientists illuminate nature at the smallest and largest scales. Photons, the fundamental particles of the electromagnetic field that ...

Previous research conducted at RHIC and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, which is the European Organization for Nuclear Research, utilized measurements of the energy of photons, essential ...

For the past quarter-century, scientists using a particle collider on Long Island have been smashing the nuclei of gold atoms together at nearly the speed of light to create the hottest matter ever ...

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