Scientists are using “trapped ions” in highly precise experiments to search for a new, fifth force of nature that could help ...

Yet, even so, gravity remains one of the greatest mysteries in physics. In their quest to understand the fundamental forces ...

Silver-110’s decay reveals a promising path to measure antineutrino mass. New data could reshape future neutrino studies.

The story has been told many times. At the beginning of the 20th century, physics seemed essentially solved. One or two puzzling phenomena like the photoelectric effect and concerns over black body ...

Imagine a star so dense that a teaspoon of its material would weigh as much as Mount Everest, spinning hundreds of times per ...

China races to unlock one of the biggest mysteries in particle physics. JUNO, the underground facility in Kaiping, will boot up in 2025. By Andrew Paul. Published Oct 17, 2024 11:05 AM EDT.

Scientists are using trapped ions in experiments to search for signs of a new particle that could help explain the mysterious ...

"Dark matter remains one of the biggest mysteries in physics, and this work shows that we may have been overlooking its subtle chemical effects on the cosmos." Strange events seen at the very ...

One of world’s greatest physics mysteries finally decoded ‘Right now, we don’t have an explanation about where all the antimatter in the universe is’ Vishwam Sankaran.

The Hubble tension is one of the biggest mysteries in cosmology. It centers around the Hubble constant—the measurement of how fast our universe is expanding—which comes out as two different ...

Physicists have answered the long-standing question of whether antimatter falls up or down under gravity, an advance that could help crack one of the biggest mysteries of why almost everything in the ...