MACE is a next-generation experiment designed to catch muonium transforming into its antimatter twin, a process that would ...

A 'boom' of light that appears when a particle exceeds the speed of light set by a medium could, in other contexts, signal a kind of quantum instability that could trigger what's known as vacuum decay ...

The six-year Dark Energy Survey has released its full results, showing that two leading models of cosmology are equally valid — but both fail to explain one key observation.

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

Light does a lot of work in the modern world, enabling all types of information technology, from TVs to satellites to ...

Particle and high energy physics seeks to understand the fundamental constituents of matter and the interactions that govern them across the smallest distance scales and highest energies. The Standard ...

Focused Energy is developing a commercial system for generating energy from the laser-driven fusion of hydrogen isotopes.

Roland Winston, SB’56, SM’57, PhD’63—a pioneer in solar energy, engineering, and physics—died Feb. 8 at his home in California. He was 88. Winston was a University of Chicago professor in the ...

The idea that the United States can quickly “transition” away from hydrocarbons—the energy sources primarily used today—to a future dominated by so-called green technologies has become one of the ...

Solve a basketball jump physics problem by tracking how mechanical energy changes from takeoff to peak height. This video explains kinetic energy, gravitational potential energy, and energy ...

In January I wrote a piece titled “5 Physics Equations Everyone Should Know.” Lots of you weighed in with your own nominations, and there were plenty of good suggestions. So I’ve decided to do a ...