Daniel Whiteson and Andy Warner’s upcoming book is a philosophical exploration of the humanity behind our desire to find ...

On July 4, 2012, researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland announced with great fanfare that they had ...

Scientists from around the world are at Brown to discuss what is known, and what needs to be learned, about the long-sought particle discovered a decade ago.

The uncertainty inherent to quantum mechanics has long left physicists wondering whether the observations we make on the ...

How do we know the speed of light – and why does it have a speed limit at all? Leah Crane explores the history of one of the most important numbers in the universe ...

Physicists show knotted cosmic strings may have dominated the early universe before collapsing to create matter—a theory ...

The possibility that our entire universe merely exists inside a computer simulation is more than an idle science fiction ...

Julie Roche, professor of physics at Ohio University, has been named a 2025 Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), ...

In a Physical Review Letters study, the HOLMES collaboration has achieved the most stringent upper bound on the effective ...

When the International Space Station plunges to its fiery doom in 2030 its loss to science will be incalculable, even if it ...

The hyperfine structure of radium monofluoride has been measured by researchers in the US and elsewhere with such precision ...

Physicists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have made a groundbreaking discovery, developing a tabletop ...