The particle in question, known as a sterile neutrino, was supposed to only interact with gravity and have zero interactions ...

A team of quantum physicists has taken a concept that once lived purely in equations and turned it into hardware reality, ...

The theorized unseen structure of spacetime could also explain of the outstanding questions about the accelerating expansion ...

A team of physicists has coaxed a single, photon-like particle into behaving as if it lives in 37 different quantum ...

"Dark photon" theory says light's interference patterns may emerge from quantum particles, not waves, upending centuries of ...

University of Chicago scientists have solved a 20-year-old puzzle in particle physics using data from an experiment conducted for an entirely different purpose. Physicists had long known that ...

Take, for instance, quantum entanglement, which says that the state of one particle can be determined by examining the state ...

Quantum theory and Einstein's theory of general relativity are two of the greatest successes in modern physics. Each works ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Every second, 100 trillion phantasmic little particles called ...

From its resting place outside Chicago, Illinois, a long-defunct experiment is threatening to throw the field of elementary particles off balance. Physicists have toiled for ten years to squeeze a ...

Jason Bono was one of the researchers behind a major scientific moment — when tiny particles unexpectedly unraveled one of the most important and successful theories in physics. Bono, who earned his ...

Sam Baron receives funding from the Australian Research Council. The Matter of Everything tells the history of physics through experiments. Any book about the history of science for a general audience ...