Co-sponsored by the National Society of Black Physicists, the award celebrates promising early-career physicists ...

Lightspeed travel is a popular concept in sci-fi and pop culture, but it's not a technology we are likely to see anytime soon ...

Scientists demonstrated a new way to use high-energy particle smashups at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a world ...

Scientists have demonstrated a new way to use high-energy particle smashups at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)—a U ...

For the first time, an international research team has designed realistic photonic time crystals—exotic materials that ...

When a solution evaporates, the water goes into the air but the solid is left behind. Students continue exploring the particle nature of matter by first dissolving salt in water, then allowing the ...

The nature of dark matter has come under closer scrutiny as ... and Helen Quinn, a particle physicist then at Stanford University, suggested a slight modification to the theory that governs ...

“There was a point where people were pretty sure it [the dark matter particle] was the WIMP, and that was a nice story,” says Slatyer. “But I don’t think anyone believes anymore that it ...

Neutron stars with a penchant for extreme spinning could be churning out one of the most sought-after particles in the ...

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

Dark matter makes up the vast majority of the mass of almost every galaxy in the universe, but its exact nature still eludes ... prohibited without a mediator particle doing the work.