A look back at the history of density functional theory explores why the idea was slow to be adopted in chemistry.

Deep under the Apennine Mountains in central Italy, a detector holding nearly 9 tonnes of liquid xenon just posted the tightest experimental limits ever placed on two classes of dark matter candidates ...

Photonic time crystal research achieved a world first on July 29, 2026: scientists from École Polytechnique, Collège de ...

Fields Medal 2026 winners Hong Wang, Yu Deng, John Pardon, and Jacob Tsimerman each solved problems that had stood open for ...

The most direct experiment humans have ever designed to answer why the universe is made of matter — rather than equal amounts of matter and antimatter that would have annihilated each other — is being ...

Dark matter appears to hold galaxies together, yet it has never shown itself directly. A new theory suggests the missing substance may owe its elusive behavior to the geometry of a hidden fifth ...

The mysterious substance that binds galaxies together could naturally be 'in tune' with a hidden fifth dimension, according to a new theory aiming to shed light on one of science's biggest enigmas: ...

The standard model of particle physics may be due for a philosophical remodel, including rethinking what qualifies each of its particles to count as a particle to begin with. Whether a particle is ...

After decades of hunting, physicists still don’t know what makes up most of the universe’s matter. Now they need to cast a wider net. Underneath an Apennine massif, below the Jinping Mountains of ...

A weird force that skirts traditional physics norms has helped erase a smudge on the foundations of particle physics. It’s a phenomenon called the “neutrino force,” by which neutrinos could ...

Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland have announced that they discovered a new subatomic particle. Roughly four times more massive than a standard proton, this short-lived piece of ...