The big bang wasn’t the start of everything, but it has been impossible to see what came before. Now a new kind of cosmology is lifting the veil on the beginning of time ...

What is meant, when an experiment anticipates less than a quarter of an event, and four are registered by the detector? That ...

Muons tend to scatter more from high-atomic-number materials, so the technique is particularly sensitive to the presence of materials such as uranium. As a result, it has been used to create systems ...

Scientists saw a quark plowing through primordial plasma for the first time, offering a rare look at the first moments after ...

Two independent lines of evidence from the world’s most powerful particle experiments are converging on the same ...

Judith Chernaik’s idea to feature verse in subway cars has transformed the morning commutes of millions worldwide.

In the early 1980s, Japanese physicist Masatoshi Koshiba was constructing a pioneering experimental facility to detect neutrinos from the Sun. Neutrinos are chargeless, invisible and notoriously ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com. Can we generate a way to interact with dark ...

In his posthumous book Brief Answers to the Big Questions, released on October 16, the physicist tackles the ultimate inquiry: Does God exist? His answer ...

It is commonly assumed that tiny particles just go with the flow as they make their way through soil, biological tissue, and other complex materials. But a team of Yale researchers led by Professor ...

In our three-dimensional space, elementary particles neatly filter into either bosons or fermions. But in lower dimensions, that distinction gets a bit murky.

Scientists have used a novel new approach to discover the potential origins of the sun goddess particle Amaterasu, the second most energetic cosmic ray ever to be detected striking Earth.