A proposed funding program for small- and medium-scale projects reveals insights into the science, logistical challenges, and future of particle physics research. Particle physicists have a reputation ...

Over the past decades, many research teams worldwide have been trying to detect dark matter, an elusive type of matter that ...

Dan Seaton is a staff scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, who studies the sun and its connections to and impacts on the solar system. In the summer of 1999, I was a ...

Final results from a long-running U.S.-based experiment announced Tuesday show a tiny particle continues to act strangely — but that’s still good news for the laws of physics as we know them. “This ...

Using small angle neutron and X-ray scattering, researchers from the European Spallation Source and RWTH Aachen University ...

A fusion reactor in southern France achieved a significant milestone toward clean, limitless energy. The fusion reactor, WEST, created a super-hot plasma and sustained it for a record-breaking 6 ...

Sounds like a bright idea. Scientists have received approval to soon test whether “dimming” the light from the sun will combat global warming — a strategy some critics have recently described as ...