Astrophysical explosions are, to give a few examples, driven by the collapse of the iron core of a massive star...
Antimatter might sound like something out of science fiction, but at the CERN Antiproton Decelerator (AD), scientists produce and trap...
An old physical phenomenon known as the Hall effect has revealed some new tricks, according to a team co-led by...
At the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory, 13,000 feet above sea level on the Sierra Negra volcano of Mexico, researchers...
If you’ve ever watched a large flock of birds on the wing, moving across the sky like a cloud with...
Many black holes detected to date appear to be part of a pair. These binary systems comprise a black hole...
Nuclear fission—when the nucleus of an atom splits in two, releasing energy—may seem like a process that is fully understood....
A new study has uncovered the universal dynamics far from equilibrium in randomly interacting spin models, thereby complementing the well-established...
The atomic nucleus is made up of protons and neutrons, particles that exist through the interaction of quarks bonded by...
Far beneath the lush landscape of southern China, a sprawling subterranean laboratory aims to be the world’s first to crack...
Physicists at RIKEN have demonstrated how ultrafast, low-power-consumption memory devices could be realized by replacing conventional magnetic materials with novel...
A quasar is the extremely bright core of a galaxy that hosts an active supermassive black hole at its center....
