Which way is ‘down’ has a different answer depending on where you are on Earth, in the solar system, in our galaxy and beyond ...

Inside the Large Hadron Collider, protons slam together at nearly the speed of light, creating a brief fireball of quarks and ...

Proton collisions at the LHC appear wildly chaotic, but new data reveal a surprising underlying order. The findings confirm that a basic rule of quantum mechanics holds true even in extreme particle ...

Inside the most powerful particle colliders on Earth, protons slam together at nearly the speed of light, shredding matter ...

In the future, quantum computers are anticipated to solve problems once thought unsolvable, from predicting the course of ...

Evidence of quantum particles working together to generate self-sustaining energy pulses has scientists rethinking the entire quantum world.

When observing small worms under a microscope, one might observe something very surprising: the worms appear to make a ...

An experiment with ultracold atoms reveals that a strongly driven quantum system doesn’t always heat up as expected. In daily ...

The masses of fundamental particles such as the Z and W bosons could have arisen from the twisted geometry of hidden dimensions, a new theoretical paper has demonstrated. The work has outlined a way ...

LAWRENCE — Experimental particle physicists working at the MicroBooNE experiment at Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory have found evidence against the existence of a "sterile" type of neutrino ...

After collecting and analyzing data for a decade, a group of scientists, including a team from Rutgers, have debunked a decades-old theory about a mysterious particle. Using a powerful liquid-argon ...