Scientists analyzing data from heavy ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)—the world's most powerful particle ...

The chemical foundations of life could be found in the frigid pockets of molecular clouds that exist in the space between stars, rather than on any planetary bodies. At the University of Aarhus in ...

But only in the last 70 years have we known for certain they were there. In 1956, physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines ...

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

The old fantasy of transforming lead into gold is now a reality, made possible by some wildly inefficient physics at the ...

A team from the European Spallation Source taking precise measurements of the silicon carbide girder at CERN. (Image: Maximilien Brice/CERN) ...

A new chart for highly charged ions (HCIs) has been proposed, aiming to replicate the conventional periodic table’s ...

Retirement taxes often come from Social Security, withdrawals, and property costs. Learn practical ways retirees may lower ...

New director-general Mark Thomson discusses fundraising efforts and future priorities for Europe’s particle-physics ...

Astronomers have discovered a stream of particles escaping from a young massive star cluster, Westerlund 1. This is the first ...

Two new landers capable of withstanding 1,200 times the pressure on the Earth’s surface will help uncover the secrets of the ...

A Simon Fraser University cosmologist believes his team's new research may bring them a step closer to cracking one of ...