Aerospace engineering is a challenge for anyone—and as a first-generation college student, Maria faced additional hurdles. With strength, hard work and the support of community, Maria persevered. Now, ...

Virtual particles may not be real, but they help physicists track how forces move, and allow for incredibly precise ...

Members of the STAR collaboration, a group of physicists collecting and analyzing data from particle collisions at the ...

Particles similar to axions, the leading candidate for dark matter that has long eluded detection, may have already been ...

Scientists want to find out, and that research could reveal properties and use cases we can’t even dream of today—but we can only make a few atoms at a time, and they last for just microseconds before ...

In a new study, scientists have shown that chemical receptors that plants use to recognize nitrogen-fixing bacteria have ...

Intensity-modulated radiotherapy is as good as proton beam therapy for treating people with head and neck cancer, according ...

Andrea Richard receives funding from the Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration.

What's new in proton therapy? Read the latest news and views from Fred Hutch's proton therapy facility’s patients and ...

NASA’s IMAP mission will explore the heliosphere and study how it shields Earth from cosmic radiation and space weather.

Baryons are the class of subatomic particles that includes protons and neutrons ... Across all planets and stars, scientists can find only around 70% of the baryons they predicted should be in the ...

Nicholas Spada is one of the only scientists in the world using a nuclear x-ray process to study deadly nanoparticles in ...