The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a major new scientific facility jointly funded by the US National Science Foundation ...

For centuries, scientists thought the universe was filled with a mysterious substance called the luminiferous ether, a medium they believed carried light waves through otherwise empty space. In 1887, ...

Returning to the scene of the dream Tyson, now Rubin’s chief scientist and a professor at UC Davis, has been the project’s driving force. As founding director for over a decade, he spearheaded efforts ...

A very quirky quark Physicist Christian Schwanenberger has been studying the top quark since 2004. “I arrived a Fermilab nine years after the discovery,” says Schwanenberger, a scientist at DESY and ...

Yesterday, at the annual Rencontres de Moriond conference taking place in La Thuile, Italy, the LHCb collaboration at CERN reported a new milestone in our understanding of the subtle yet profound ...

Neutrinos are some of the most abundant particles in the universe, and they are everywhere. Every second, more than 6 trillion neutrinos cruise in between the molecules of water and caffeine in your ...

Getting there Before building the DUNE detectors, scientists must test and validate their technology. Scientists at European research center CERN have taken on this task by building and operating a ...

In 2017, Savannah Thais attended the NeurIPS machine-learning conference in Long Beach, California, hoping to learn about techniques she could use in her doctoral work on electron identification.

In the beginning, a spaceship called the Yggdrasil is sailing through the cosmos to find a new home for its long-term inhabitants. Suddenly, the ship is hit by a stray asteroid, damaging the hydrogen ...

The universe is vast, almost beyond comprehension. It has an estimated diameter of 93 billion light-years. And of the fundamental forces of nature, just one is capable of acting across that entire ...

When it was first discovered in 2012, the Higgs boson captured the popular imagination and became the subject of intense scientific scrutiny. One way scientists knew for sure that the object they ...

From Madagascar to Fermilab It all began with the African School of Physics, a three-week-long program that teaches students aspects of theoretical, experimental and applied physics. Rakotondravohitra ...