Plans Revealed for Enormous Particle Collider in China
Scientists this week released a conceptual design report for a next-generation particle accelerator in China, which…
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So What's Going on With That 'Hurricane of Dark Matter?'
It’s the perfect science-fiction device: a hurricane of dark matter. Recent, real-life research has demonstrated that…
Scientists Weighed the Earth Using Ghostly Particles From Space
Scientists have to use some roundabout methods to weigh the Earth and measure what’s inside it—typically, they’ve used…
Astronomers Propose Huge New Telescope System to Understand the Most Energetic Particles Ever Detected
Astronomers have proposed a truly enormous telescope consisting of 200,000 radio receivers around the world, which…
Scientists Worldwide Are Getting Serious About Quantum Internet
It takes little more than logging on to see the flaws in today’s internet—mainly, how easy it is to steal or intercept…
Scientists Release Result from 'Astonishing' Feat of Creating and Testing Quantum Gas in Space
Last year, graduate student Dennis Becker watched from a safehouse as the MAIUS-1's sounding rocket took off from a…
A Visit to One of the Most Powerful Lasers on Earth
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA—The winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics didn’t just make discoveries. Their…
Hey, Did You Know Stephen Hawking Thought There Is No God?
In what would be somewhat of a revelation had the late theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking not been…
String Theorists' Heads Bobble Over Potential Dark Energy Wobble
Harvard physicist Cumrun Vafa is one of string theory’s strongest proponents. But this summer, other string theorists…
More Than 200 Physicists Denounce Sexist Lecture at CERN
A group of 19 physicists penned a statement denouncing the talk given last week by Italian physicist Alessandro Strumia…
Physicist Who Coined the 'God Particle' and Sold His Nobel Prize to Pay Medical Bills Dies at 96
Leon Lederman, the former head of the Fermi National Accelerator Lab and winner of the the Nobel Prize in physics in…
We Regret to Inform You the Large Hadron Collider Will Not Annihilate Earth
There’s a tired, much-debunked doomsday theory pushed by British physicist Martin Rees that powerful particle colliders…
Donna Strickland, Third Woman to Ever Win Nobel Prize in Physics, Helped Make Awesome Laser Tool
Scientists Arthur Ashkin from the U.S.-based Bell Labs, Gérard Mourou from École Polytechnique in France, and Donna…
Male Physicist Claims Women Are Worse at Physics at CERN Gender Bias Talk
This weekend, a prominent Italian physicist, Alessandro Strumia, lectured fledging women scientists at CERN about the…
New Particle Could Explain 'Unusual' Antarctic Weather Balloon Detection
An enormous weather balloon in Antarctica spotted what looked like a high-energy particle from outer space striking the…
The Large Hadron Collider Turns 10: Here's What's Next for Particle Physics
September 10 marked the 10th anniversary of when the Large Hadron Collider first powered on. Since it’s already…
A New Hunt for a 'Dark Force' Begins This Month in Italy
This month, Italian physicists will turn on an experiment hunting for a fifth, dark force of nature, the Guardian…
Physicists Just Made the Most Precise Measurement Ever of Gravity's Strength
Gravity might feel strong if you drop a bowling ball on your feet, but is in fact the weakest force. Compare it to…
Ancient ‘Monster Galaxy’ Is Forming Stars a Thousand Times Faster Than the Milky Way
Chile’s Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has observed a galaxy that looks nothing like what…
Physicists Achieve Incredible Electron-Accelerating Feat at Small Scale
Particle physics experiments are huge—they have to be, in order to accelerate particles with enough energy to properly…