Physicists at the world's largest atom smasher have detected a mysterious, primordial particle from the dawn of time. About 100 of the short-lived "X" particles — so named because of their unknown ...

Spencer Axani, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is the inventor of CosmicWatch, a portable, ...

A team of quantum physicists has taken a concept that once lived purely in equations and turned it into hardware reality, ...

You can't see, feel, hear, taste or smell them, but tiny particles from space are constantly raining down on us.

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

Take, for instance, quantum entanglement, which says that the state of one particle can be determined by examining the state ...

For more than half a century, particle physicists have theorized the existence of a “glueball,” a particle made entirely of gluons. While the past few decades have produced some compelling candidates, ...

Picture a particle physicist. What do they look like as they do their research? There's a certain popular image of what a scientist looks like while they make their discoveries, according to Dr.

Primed goes in-depth on the technobabble you hear on Engadget every day -- we dig deep into each topic's history and how it benefits our lives. You can follow the series here. Looking to suggest a ...

In this op-ed, particle physicist Yangyang Cheng explores why she chose to participate in the March for Science on April 22, 2017. On April 22, I will be marching for science. As a particle physicist, ...