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

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.

Lithium-ion batteries power our phones, cars, and even homes; ensuring their safe and efficient behavior has become ...

Theorists have found that a “warm” version of cosmic inflation is consistent with known physics, linking it to the hunt for ...

Nobel laureate Chen Ning Yang, who spent decades advancing physics in both the U.S. and China, died in Beijing on Saturday at ...

What if I told you that while you can't see dark matter, maybe you can hear it? I know, I know, it sounds crazy…and it is ...

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

Such an exponential expansion may seem minor, but it is equivalent to a grape in the palm of your hand swelling to become ...

Understanding how matter reorganizes as its density increases is a central question in particle and condensed-matter physics. Yet in quantum systems governed by strong interactions, finding analytical ...

The hyperfine structure of radium monofluoride has been measured by researchers in the US and elsewhere with such precision ...

The ‘inflationary’ model of cosmology explains many large-scale features of the Universe as the result of a primordial period ...