Textbooks give strange, imprecise explanations of where things happen in quantum mechanics. Consistency with gravity needs a fresh approach.

An experiment carried out at CERN's ISOLDE facility has determined the western shore of a small island of atomic nuclei, ...

Researchers at UBC have found a way to mimic the elusive Schwinger effect using superfluid helium, where vortex pairs appear ...

A clutch of 28 dinosaur eggs found in the Qinglongshan fossil reserve in central China is about 86 million years old, ...

The quantum world is already full of surprises, but a new discovery has added an entire wing to what scientists call the ...

Physicists have upended a foundational law of materials science by heating gold to over 19,000°C — more than 14 times its ...

In 1951, physicist Julian Schwinger theorized that by applying a uniform electrical field to a vacuum, electron-positron ...

What do quarks, electrons, and photons have in common? They’re all part of the Standard Model - the theory that helped ...

Understanding the universe's building blocks, the Standard Model categorizes particles and explains forces, yet leaves ...

A 1989 experiment offered the promise of nuclear fusion without the need for high temperatures, but this "cold fusion" was quickly debunked. Now, some of the techniques involved have been resurrected ...