Physicists have spent decades treating mass as something the universe simply hands to particles, a property encoded in ...

The rapid acceleration of the universe’s expansion continues to challenge our understanding of fundamental physics. Why the ...

Quantum theory and Einstein's theory of general relativity are two of the greatest successes in modern physics. Each works ...

The particle in question, known as a sterile neutrino, was supposed to only interact with gravity and have zero interactions ...

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, low-cost particle detector that tracks muons, invisible particles that ...

Exotic hypothetical particles known as axions could be produced inside a nuclear reactor, something The Big Bang Theory’s ...

A team of physicists has coaxed a single, photon-like particle into behaving as if it lives in 37 different quantum ...

A new study enhances hydrogen molecule predictions, achieving unprecedented precision in testing fundamental physics and ...

How a rejected paper by Kolkata physicist Satyendra Nath Bose, backed by Albert Einstein, laid the scientific foundation for ...

An analysis of several experiments aimed at detecting the mysterious neutrino has identified a hint of a crack in the ...

Try as they might, scientists can’t truly rid a space or an object of its energy. But what “zero-point energy” really means ...