An elusive particle that first formed in the hot, dense maelstrom of the early universe has puzzled physicists for decades.

In a paper published in the journal Nature Physics, researchers used a superconducting quantum simulator to emulate charged ...

Fifty years ago, a team at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park made a discovery that turned the world of ...

New research has unveiled a previously unacknowledged effect of Einstein’s relativity theory similar to time dialtion and ...

Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory have used supercomputer simulations to predict electric charge distributions in ...

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

Calculations of charge distribution in mesons provide benchmark for experimental measurements and validate widely used 'factorization' method for imaging the building blocks of matter.

Scientists have demonstrated a new way to use high-energy particle smashups at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) to reveal subtle details about the shapes of atomic nuclei. The method is ...

Primordial black holes may be exploding throughout the universe. If we can catch them in the act, it could pave the way to ...

There’s just one catch: every atom in your body would be fully disassembled to the quantum level, effectively leaving your ...

Fine tuning an experimental setup improved a detector's sensitivity to neutrinos and perhaps eventually dark matter—two ...

With advancements in imaging technology, the first successful dark matter detector might turn out to be an ancient rock. The visible universe — every potato, gas giant, steamy romance novel, black ...