Physicists are learning to carve laser beams into intricate shapes that can grab hold of electrons and push them with a ...

Physicists are increasingly entertaining a radical possibility: our familiar universe of three dimensions of space and one of ...

Two newly published experiments have resolved one of quantum physics’ most iconic disputes.

"WIMPs are still the leading candidate for dark matter, but billions of dollars of experiments have been done, only getting ...

Now, two unrelated-but-similar experiments confirm that, in a double-slit experiment, detection of a photon’s path (its ...

Proton collisions at the LHC appear wildly chaotic, but new data reveal a surprising underlying order. The findings confirm that a basic rule of quantum mechanics holds true even in extreme particle ...

Nearly everything in the universe is made of mysterious dark matter and dark energy, yet we can’t see either of them directly ...

You can't see, feel, hear, taste or smell them, but tiny particles from space are constantly raining down on us.

In the future, quantum computers are anticipated to solve problems once thought unsolvable, from predicting the course of ...

Spencer Axani, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is the inventor of CosmicWatch, a portable, ...

Scientists have uncovered an unexpected breakdown of nuclear order in a remarkably symmetric atom, challenging long-standing ...

The universe's matter-antimatter asymmetry, where matter significantly outweighs antimatter despite their theoretically equal creation at the Big Bang, remains a major unsolved problem in physics.