After 25 years, Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider—the U.S.’s largest particle collider—has ...

Cosmology and quantum physics both offer tantalizing possibilities that we inhabit just one reality among many. But testing that idea is challenging.

Physicists have watched a quantum fluid do something once thought almost impossible: stop moving. In experiments with ...

In a new study published in Physical Review Letters, scientists have performed the first global simulations of monster shocks ...

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

Physicists suggest that a single, extraordinarily powerful cosmic signal detected on Earth could be linked to the explosive ...

Physicists at Heidelberg University have developed a new theory that finally unites two long-standing and seemingly incompatible views of how exotic particles behave inside quantum matter. In some ...

Even before competing in his first Olympics, 21-year-old Ilia Malinin has transformed the sport of figure skating.

When the universe first burst into being, all of space was a cosmic cauldron filled with a roiling, fiery liquid of ...

The UK government is to slash by 30 percent its funding for astronomy, particle and nuclear physics in a move branded as disastrous for the field and likely to affect a generation of researchers.

A research team from the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (AIRCAS) has developed a ...