Ghost particles' can zoom through you without a trace. Scientists are getting to the bottom of this cosmic mystery ...

Scientists from around the world are at Brown to discuss what is known, and what needs to be learned, about the long-sought particle discovered a decade ago.

How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, ...

Everything we see around us, from the ground beneath our feet to the most remote galaxies, is made of matter. For scientists, that has long posed a problem: According to physicists’ best current ...

Evidence of this quantum layer may be coming soon. Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: Physicists are still puzzling over ...

Japanese physicists have revived Kelvin’s old idea of cosmic knots, showing how these tangled fields might explain why matter ...

(CBS SF) -- Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking believes the recently discovered Higgs boson, also known as the "God particle," has the potential to unravel the universe, at least theoretically, as he ...

The poet Blake wrote that you can see a world in a grain of sand. But even better, you can see a universe in an atom!