Probing ever deeper into the inner world of the atom, nuclear physicists have uncovered an increasingly baffling collection of tiny particles. Besides the familiar neutrons, electrons and protons, ...

According to Alfred Nobel's will, the Nobel Prize in Physics was to go to "the person who shall have made the most important ...

Dark matter has bewildered scientists for centuries. It makes up most of the universe’s matter, but it can’t be seen directly.

At the heart of the Swiss-French border, beneath 100 meters of Alpine soil, a long-abandoned alchemical dream has stirred ...

A recent Physical Review Letters study presents a new model for quark star merger ejecta that could resolve whether these ...

Long theorized but never confirmed, quark stars could be the densest objects in the universe — stranger even than neutron ...

Nobel Prize in Physics is a tribute to the scientists who first discovered quantum behaviors in a macroscopic electrical circuit.

A contemporary approach to researching scattered particles employs particle detectors, which detect individual particles impinging upon them. This device provides an efficient and economical solution ...

For almost 100 years, the Soudan mine in Tower, Minn., yielded the purest iron ore in the country. Now University researchers will mine knowledge that could put them on the forefront of physics ...

IonQ shares have soared over 600% in the past year. The company is strengthening its quantum computing tech with the acquisition of Oxford Ionics. IonQ stock is highly volatile, as measured by a beta ...

WASHINGTON, DC — On October 10, the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 will be officially announced, but ahead of that date, the Nobel Committee has signaled that media attention and public campaigns around a ...