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

You can't see, feel, hear, taste or smell them, but tiny particles from space are constantly raining down on us.

Spencer Axani, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is the inventor of CosmicWatch, a portable, low-cost particle detector that tracks muons, invisible particles that ...

Scientists are a step closer to solving one of the universe’s biggest mysteries as new research finds evidence that two of ...

New research from the University of Sheffield provides compelling evidence that dark matter and neutrinos may interact, challenging the long-standing ...

Physicists have engineered photons that behave as if they inhabit a space far richer than the familiar three dimensions, ...

Cosmologists are increasingly entertaining a radical possibility: that the cosmos might fold back on itself so that, on the ...

Exotic hypothetical particles known as axions could potentially be produced inside a nuclear reactor, something The Big Bang Theory’s Sheldon Cooper thought was impossible.

Physicists Maria Goeppert Mayer and J. Hans D. Jensen develop a theory of the nucleus as composed of shells of protons and neutrons. It explains why nuclei ...