The invisible dark matter is one of the universe's biggest mysteries, and its existence is confirmed only by the ...

Quantum tunnelling — when a particle skips through a barrier that classical physics would forbid — happens faster when objects have less energy, find physicists who worked out a way to probe photons ...

On June 11, the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine announced the result of a three-year study to set a ...

Dark matter, although not visible, is believed to make up most of the total mass of the universe. One theory suggests that ...

Scientists are on the trail of a mysterious five-particle structure that could challenge one of the biggest theories in physics: string theory. This rare particle—never seen before and predicted not ...

Physicists are a step closer to using quantum computers for simulations that are beyond the ability of any ordinary computers ...

Key takeawaysIn physics, there are two great pillars of thought that don't quite fit together. The Standard Model of particle physics describes all ...

Collaboration has obtained a high-precision cosmic-ray boron spectrum in the energy range of 10 GeV/n–8 TeV/n, and discovered ...

Silver-110’s decay reveals a promising path to measure antineutrino mass. New data could reshape future neutrino studies.

Nearly a decade ago, a detector searching for ghostly cosmic particles found two anomalous signals in Antarctic ice. But ...

An invisible force has long eluded detection within the halls of the world’s most famous particle accelerator—until now.

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