The bold question-askers at What If investigate the effects of putting your head into a particle accelerator. Shrapnel from ...

Simulated image of the protons in an LHC bunch (left) and an HL-LHC bunch (right). (Image: CERN) Intensity is rising in the ...

For the first time, by studying quantum correlations between triplets of secondary particles created during high-energy ...

Scientists are finding microplastics in human brain tissue. Learn what that means for mental and neurological health, and ...

The strong nuclear force may abruptly loosen its grip on the fundamental particles that make up matter at a special “critical ...

The advance hints at the possibility of portable muon-making devices that could help peer through solid materials for hidden contraband.

Laser plasma device could be light enough to be used on the field.

Relativistic electron-positron plasmas are ubiquitous in extreme astrophysical environments such as black-hole and neutron-star magnetospheres, where accretion-powered jets and pulsar winds are ...

At the heart of the Swiss-French border, beneath 100 meters of Alpine soil, a long-abandoned alchemical dream has stirred ...

The discovery honored with this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics takes phenomena observed in the subatomic world—the ...

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis awarded 2024 Nobel Prize in physics for groundbreaking quantum ...