Electricity isn't just wires and outlets. Its history includes fake experiments, brutal PR wars, and vehicles that predate ...

Inside the Large Hadron Collider, protons slam together at nearly the speed of light, creating a brief fireball of quarks and ...

But only in the last 70 years have we known for certain they were there. In 1956, physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines ...

Physicists have long relied on the idea that electrons behave like tiny particles zipping through materials, even though ...

"WIMPs are still the leading candidate for dark matter, but billions of dollars of experiments have been done, only getting ...

You can't see, feel, hear, taste or smell them, but tiny particles from space are constantly raining down on us.

They're called ghost particles for a reason. They're everywhere—trillions of them constantly stream through everything: our ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: It used to be thought that bizarre interactions between subatomic particles known as neutrinos could be explained by another type of neutrino. The ...

The joint NOvA-T2K analysis achieved unprecedented precision in measuring neutrino mass, a key step toward understanding ...

At first glance, quantum mechanics might seem strange or even impossible. That’s because our everyday experiences of the laws of physics are very different from how matter and energy behave at the ...