Cosmic rays are extremely fast, charged particles that travel through space at nearly the speed of light. The Amaterasu ...

The idea that empty space is truly empty has been quietly dying for decades, but new measurements of particle spin are now forcing the issue. By tracking how tiny fragments of matter emerge with ...

Physicists think a 2023 particle detection marks the first exploding black hole seen. If true, it rewrites our understanding of dark matter.

The Pauli exclusion principle is a cornerstone of the Standard Model of particle physics and is essential for the structure and stability of matter ...

Cosmic rays are messengers from space that scientists use to study the Universe. Francesca Capel and Nadine Bourriche from ...

Major reforms to the United Kingdom’s national research funding agency are aimed at boosting the nation's economy.

A short circuit sparked a massive fire on Thursday at a leading physics laboratory in the western German city of Darmstadt, ...

Scientists have found “strange quarks” that originated as virtual particles sprung from nothing Quantum physics paints a ...

Once this effect kicks in, the black hole discharges rapidly and explodes. Crucially, the UMass team calculated that this ...

Spin correlations in the heart of a particle collider may help crack one of the biggest mysteries known, said physicist Zhoudunming Tu.

John Martinis has already revolutionised quantum computing twice. Now, he is working on another radical rethink of the ...

Many have wondered why the Chinese-American physicist Chien-Shiung Wu never won a share of the 1957 Nobel Prize for Physics ...