Roughly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled just enough to allow photons to escape from the primordial ...

In the quest to uncover the fundamental particles and forces of nature, one of the critical challenges facing high-energy ...

In a disordered material, these wavefunctions can either be localized, meaning the particle is confined to a specific region ...

A two-day international conference commemorating the hundred years of Bose-Einstein statistics was curiously labelled as "A ...

A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble.

The theory of special relativity is rife with counterintuitive and surprising effects, the most famous of which are length ...

Now, a new study claims to have spotted these particles in a semimetal material, which conducts electricity like a normal ...

The next head of Europe's CERN physics laboratory said Thursday that he favoured moving forward with plans for a giant ...

A decade after the discovery of the “amplituhedron,” physicists have excavated more of the timeless geometry underlying the ...

Scientists have long thought that the highest-energy gamma rays in space are forged in the intense furnaces of very active ...

A technique that combines super-resolution microscopy with advanced computational analysis could identify early signs of Parkinson’s disease ...

Certain interactions in physics cause both a particle and its matching antiparticle to be created and thrown in opposite directions. These two are destined for each other, though, and just like ...