A groundbreaking discovery has rocked the field of neutrino astronomy—scientists have detected an ultra-high-energy neutrino ...

Students will be able to develop and explain a particle-level model to describe their observations of water dissolving salt, the water evaporating, and the salt crystals re-forming. Dissolving a solid ...

Supersymmetry, a theory that posits every known elementary particle has a heavier “superpartner” particle, has been the superstar of theoretical physics for the past half century. Its ...

Key Takeaways Babies exposed to air and light pollution have a higher risk of childhood thyroid cancerThyroid cancer risk ...

Their paper, published in Physical Review Letters, suggests that this measurement could help to explore the connection between cosmic inflation and particle physics. "One of the most astonishing ...

On the Swiss–French border, at the headquarters of the European laboratory CERN, a battle is under way for the future of particle physics. CERN’s leaders want to build the biggest machine on ...

In 1990, the largest internet site in Europe was CERN, a particle physics laboratory in Geneva. Tim Berners-Lee was a researcher there, and he thought he had a way to help organize information on ...

Students will be able to develop and explain a particle-level model to describe their observations of water dissolving the colored sugar coating of an M&M. Students will be able to use this model to ...

By Gina Kolata As many as one in five people — an estimated 64 million in the United States — have elevated levels of a tiny particle in their blood. It can greatly increase the risk of heart ...

Their presence makes resolving other sources, such as a cosmological background, a real challenge ... To be able to identify that a particle is a glueball, its mass, decay width and spin as well as ...