After 25 years, Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider—the U.S.’s largest particle collider—has ...

Cosmology and quantum physics both offer tantalizing possibilities that we inhabit just one reality among many. But testing that idea is challenging.

In a new study published in Physical Review Letters, scientists have performed the first global simulations of monster shocks ...

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

Physicists have watched a quantum fluid do something once thought almost impossible: stop moving. In experiments with ...

Physicists at Heidelberg University have developed a new theory that finally unites two long-standing and seemingly incompatible views of how exotic particles behave inside quantum matter. In some ...

Tammy Ma, director the Livermore Institute for Fusion Technology, can explain why her work with nuclear fusion is a step toward abundant clean energy.

Even before competing in his first Olympics, 21-year-old Ilia Malinin has transformed the sport of figure skating.

The UK government is to slash by 30 percent its funding for astronomy, particle and nuclear physics in a move branded as ...

A research team from the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (AIRCAS) has developed a ...

A short circuit sparked a massive fire on Thursday at a leading physics laboratory in the western German city of Darmstadt, ...