America is awesome at science. For as long as most of us have been alive, United States scientists have published more ...

A hidden world of quantum metrologists ensure that everyday devices perform safely and correctly, but their work is never ...

Quantum mechanics theory predicts that, in addition to exhibiting particle-like behavior, particles of all sizes can also ...

Michael Riordan surveys the extraordinary year of 1964, which saw the birth of the quark model, the invention of the Higgs ...

The 2025 European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics took place in Marseille from 7 to 11 July.

A recent study published in National Science Review analyzes a new type of solar energetic particle event with faster ...

To say that neutrinos aren’t the easiest particles to study would be a bit of an understatement. Outside of dark matter, there’s not much in particle physics that is as slippery as the ...

A survey of Scientific American’s century of quantum coverage helps explain the enduring popularity of strange physics ...

Might two bent crystals pave the way to finding new physics? The Standard Model of particle physics describes our world at its smallest scales exceptionally well. However, it leaves some important ...

This week, this enormous scientific facility, ten years in the making, will begin its hunt for the most elusive particles in the universe At the foot of the thickly forested Dashi Hill, in southern ...

The detector is housed at the centre of a 44 metre-deep water pool. China has officially launched the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (Juno), now the world's most powerful and advanced ...

At the foot of the thickly forested Dashi Hill, in southern China’s Guangdong province, pre-approved visitors can take a ride aboard a unique yellow train. Rather than winding through the serene ...