On a breezy afternoon last autumn in Cambridge, Mass., in a laboratory thrumming with the huff-whish-huff sound of ...

The Milky Way’s center glows with an unexplained surplus of gamma rays. Smaller galaxies orbiting nearby do not. That ...

Most clocks, from wristwatches to the systems that run GPS and the internet, work by tracking regular, repeating motions.

Using NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope, astronomers have performed high-resolution X-ray spectroscopic observations of a ...

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Measurement of W boson particle mass confirms Standard Model of physics and reignites the search for other particles.

There has been considerable debate among physicists over the last 15 years about conflicting measurements of the charge ...

The deep interiors of ice giants such as Uranus and Neptune may contain a previously unknown form of matter, based on new computational research by Carnegie scientists Cong Liu and Ronald Cohen.

Physicists working at Germany’s GSI Helmholtz Centre have found the first experimental hints that an unusually heavy subatomic particle, the eta-prime meson, can bind to an atomic nucleus. If ...