An international collaboration has shown that additive manufacturing offers a realistic way to build large-scale plastic scintillator detectors for particle physics experiments.

(CNN)-- Visiting a particle accelerator is like a religious experience, at least for Nima Arkani-Hamed. Immense detectors surround the areas where inconceivably small particles slam into one another ...

Scientists searching for dark matter have made groundbreaking progress using new infrared spectrographic technology and the ...

Several physicists have proposed theories that try to unite quantum mechanics with Einstein’s general theory of relativity.

Roland Winston, SB’56, SM’57, PhD’63—a pioneer in solar energy, engineering, and physics—died Feb. 8 at his home in ...

Researchers at Osaka University show that Cartan's First Structure Equation, which relates to edge and screw dislocations in ...

Scientists have achieved an incredible feat—mapping the forces inside a proton with extreme precision, uncovering the immense ...

DeMille is a pioneering physicist who has developed techniques to search for evidence of new particles and forces that could ...

Today, our understanding of matter goes much deeper than the nucleus, and CERN's main area of research is particle physics – the study of the fundamental constituents of matter and the forces acting ...

The challenge is fundamental. General relativity, which governs large-scale physics, and quantum mechanics ... t on the part of the quantum mechanical particle, but on the part of our language ...

The laws of physics could therefore differ for observers ... Lorentz symmetry breaking using pairs of nature's heaviest elementary particle, the top quark. Breaking space news, the latest updates ...