Using CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron, researchers generated plasma fireballs to simulate blazar jets. The beams stayed ...

A spinning basketball hurtles from the top of a dam, turning a simple ball into a high-speed physics experiment. As it falls, ...

Bell Inequalities, Relativity, and the Qubit, by William Stuckey, Michael Silberstein and Timothy McDevitt, Oxford University ...

Everyone would like to believe that they are the smartest person in the room. But the truth is that only about 0.25% of the population has the necessary IQ of 140 or above to be considered geniuses.

Scientists on the ISS are studying how condensation works in space to improve cooling systems for electronics on Earth and in ...

Chen Ning Yang (Ph.D. ’48), a Nobel Prize–winning physicist whose research transformed understanding of how particles behaved ...

MIT scientists used radium monofluoride atom to observe electrons entering atomic nuclei, revealing new details of nuclear magnetism.

The possibility that our entire universe merely exists inside a computer simulation is more than an idle science fiction ...

Researchers at CERN may be on the verge of explaining the universe’s missing gamma rays and hidden magnetic fields.

Scientists at TU Wien found that electrons need specific “doorway states” to escape solids, not just energy. The insight ...

The experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) detect rare events on a daily basis, but some are exceptionally rare, such ...

Anomalous” heat flow, which at first appears to violate the second law of thermodynamics, gives physicists a way to detect ...