The deficit of this isotope is now thought to mean that some of the oldest rocks on Earth are actually remnants of our planet ...

For the first time, by studying quantum correlations between triplets of secondary particles created during high-energy ...

A research team led by Rice University physicist Frank Geurts has successfully measured the temperature of quark-gluon plasma ...

As Quirks & Quarks celebrates its 50th anniversary, Bob McDonald looks back at a half century of science and peers forward to the next 50 years.

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John Martinis built an electrical circuit-based oscillator on a microchip.

Physicists are eyeing charged gravitinos—ultra-heavy, stable particles from supergravity theory—as possible Dark Matter candidates. Unlike axions or WIMPs, these particles carry electric charge but ...

Tesla Monson receives funding from the National Science Foundation. Andrew Weitz does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from ...

What makes the journey fascinating is how each level of zoom reveals new rules. Biology gives way to chemistry, chemistry gives way to physics, and eventually physics reaches a quantum realm full of ...

The favorite aircraft for American infantry and a spine-chilling sight for enemy troops fighting on the ground, the A-10 Warthog is one of the most iconic and devastating American legacy jets in the ...

Not to overload references, but we’re also in the realm of American drama that maps the mythic to ordinary lives; see Thornton Wilder’s village metaphysics in Our Town or Tony Kushner’s seraphic ...

Fleeting connection Artist’s impression of toponium, which is a top quark and antitop quark that are briefly bound by an exchange of gluons. (Courtesy: D Dominguez/CERN) For decades, physicists ...

For the past decade, gravitational wave astronomy has opened our eyes to amazing cosmic phenomena thanks to LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory. Bob McDonald celebrates LIGO ...