As the name suggests, particle accelerators involve accelerating subatomic particles to incredibly high speeds and smashing ...
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Ask Ellen: What causes lightning?

Lightning is a staple of West Michigan weather, but many natives might not know how this common phenomenon is made.
Gravitational-wave detection technology is poised to make a big leap forward thanks to an instrumentation advance led by physicist Jonathan Richardson of the University of California, Riverside. A ...
Physicists are eyeing charged gravitinos—ultra-heavy, stable particles from supergravity theory—as possible Dark Matter ...
Plasma is a state of matter that emerges when a gas is heated to sufficiently high temperatures, prompting some electrons to ...