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

A deeply disturbing and controversial line of thinking has emerged within the physics community. It's the idea that we are reaching the absolute limit of what we can understand about the world around ...

It is this: when many individual entities come together, the result is not merely the sum of their parts. In the language of ...

The subatomic particles are incredibly numerous. About 1,000 neutrinos from stars other than the sun pass through a thumbnail ...

Inspired by biological systems, materials scientists have long sought to harness self-assembly to build nanomaterials. The ...

Around the bright star Fomalhaut, astronomers spotted glowing clouds of debris left behind by colossal collisions between ...

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

Exotic hypothetical particles known as axions could be produced inside a nuclear reactor, something The Big Bang Theory’s ...

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

An atom is the smallest unit of an element that retains its chemical properties. It is made of protons, neutrons, and electrons. (Image: M ...

New research puts forward compelling new evidence that dark matter interacts with cosmic "ghost particles" called neutrinos.

For the first time since it was sealed around 4,500 years ago, scientists have peered into a hidden passage inside the Great ...