As the name suggests, particle accelerators involve accelerating subatomic particles to incredibly high speeds and smashing ...

For the first time, scientists have directly measured “ultraweak” photon emissions from living organisms. In rats this glow fades rapidly after death. In plants it brightens under stress. In the ...

Physicists have unveiled a new type of time crystal that is governed by quantum behavior that conflicts with classical models ...

By Mackenzie Devereux The Standard Model, depicting the fundamental building blocks of the universe, including top quarks. Courtesy of Cush via Wikimedia Commons Sitong An, a physicist at Carnegie ...

Recent discoveries in the field of quantum physics have identified a new class of particles known as anyons, which hold the potential to bridge the gap between quantum mechanics and classical physics.

Cold atom experiments are among the most powerful and precise ways of investigating and measuring the universe and exploring ...

Irish physicist William Rowan Hamilton’s pioneering work contained hints of the enigmatic wave–particle duality that governs ...

For more than a century, physics has been built on two great theories. Einstein's general relativity explains gravity as the ...

But Luis Jauregui’s work, which might power quantum computers needed for long-range space exploration, also shows how basic ...

Researchers find that a photon can spend a negative amount of time in an excited atomic state while passing through a cloud ...

These chains come in a wide range of lengths. In humans a typical protein is about 400 amino acids long; some are a lot longer. Molecules of RNA, one of the two nucleic acids, can reach up to 100,000 ...