Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider kicked off its final year of operations this week, marking a ...

American poet Robert Frost loved to wax poetic (literally) about fire and ice. What he’d make of a new “half-ice, half-fire” phase of matter discovered by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s ...

Quasi-particles are collective quantum elements of condensed matter. They are foundationally important for understanding ...

Physicists have used a cutting-edge quantum computer to simulate a complex particle theory in two dimensions. Unlike ...

At a distance of just over four light years, Proxima Centauri is our nearest stellar neighbor and is known to be a very ...

The James Webb Space Telescope identified the lights in the distant planet’s atmosphere, which could not be seen by earlier ...

Auroras are possible over the U.S. tonight (March 25) as a "moderate" geomagnetic storm hits Earth. UPDATE: The Northern ...

With a new measurement imminent, the Courier explores the experimental results and theoretical calculations used to predict ...

Highly charged heavy ions form a very suitable experimental field for investigating quantum electrodynamics (QED), the ...

Oregon State University scientists have developed a highly efficient, uniquely shaped magnetic nanoparticle that could enable ...

The standard model of particle physics represents the most comprehensive theory about fundamental or subatomic particles and forces in the universe. The model describes how matter and antimatter ...

The study of elementary particles and forces is of central importance to our understanding of the universe. Now a team of ...