Scientists have taken a major step toward solving a long-standing mystery in particle physics, by finding no sign of the ...

By establishing a larger principle for how things shatter, certain energy-intensive tasks could gain an advantage.

Columbia professors contributed to new research that seeks to understand an anomaly that has puzzled particle physics for ...

New results from the MicroBooNE experiment at Fermilab found no evidence of a hypothetical fourth flavor of neutrino ...

A quiet shift is taking place in physics labs that could one day reshape how you send a message, store data, or protect ...

A subtle timing flash may expose the Unruh effect. The approach ties ordinary lab tools to deep quantum physics. Researchers ...

Einstein’s general theory of relativity was confirmed one hundred years ago today. Go to take a theatrical journey with ...

Most of us first hear about the irrational number π (pi)—rounded off as 3.14, with an infinite number of decimal digits—in ...

Dr. Carlos Calle, an Electrostatics and Surface Physics Laboratory lead scientist at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, is enjoying the growing success of his book, “Superstrings and Other Things, A Guide ...

Stockholm — Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for studying how electrons zip around atoms in fractions of seconds, a field that could one day lead to better electronics or ...