In physics, why are only Greek letters such as delta, sigma, gamma, etc. used as symbols? It is to honour the Greek language. The Greek alphabet, which has been in use since about 9 B.C., was the ...

But if you’re an instant-gratification kind of person, particle physics is not for you, since the most important discoveries took years. New dimensions or underlying structures might exist, but ...

Detector teams at the Large Hadron Collider collaborated for a more precise estimate of the size of the Higgs boson. A physics paper with 5,154 authors has — as far as anyone knows — broken ...

A CU Boulder mechanical engineering team is earning accolades for their solar materials research. The journal Applied Physics Letters is highlighting professor Ronggui Yang and two of his PhD students ...