In high-intensity laser–matter interactions, including laser-induced particle acceleration, physicists generally want to work ...

"WIMPs are still the leading candidate for dark matter, but billions of dollars of experiments have been done, only getting ...

A breakthrough experiment in the quantum world shows photons in 37 dimensions, revealing reality beyond classical physics.

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 ...

The CosmicWatch device costs only $100 to make, making it accessible for both high school students and spacecraft operators.

Nearly everything in the universe is made of mysterious dark matter and dark energy, yet we can’t see either of them directly ...

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

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

Spencer Axani, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is the inventor of CosmicWatch, a portable, ...

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

Solar physicists say they have found a key source of intense gamma rays unleashed when Earth’s nearest star produces its most ...