This is the Cosmic Microwave Background, electromagnetic radiation from almost 13.8 billion years ago, immediately after the Big Bang. It’s the border of the known universe. NASA/WMAP Science ...

The most spectacular discoveries in fundamental physics since I started graduate school in 1973 have been the following: (1) The discovery in October 1974 of the J/psi particle, interpreted in ...

Scientists say that the construction of a vast new radio telescope array in the Utah desert — known as the Deep Synoptic ...

Nobel Prize-winning research is not always published in the highest impact journals. A new study has found that specialized journals publish more Nobel-winning physics papers than higher impact ...

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One half of the prize went to David J. Thouless; the other half was shared by F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz. They used math to explain the odd behavior of unusual states of matter.

But since 2012, particle physics hasn’t had another seismic event.Important discoveries have been made—measurements were taken of the muon’s behavior in a magnetic field, the W boson’s ...

Various large-scale astrophysical research projects are set to take place over the next decade, several of which are so-called cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments. These are large-scale ...

According to Alfred Nobel's will, the Nobel Prize in Physics was to go to "the person who shall have made the most important discovery or invention within the field of physics." The prize has been ...

Physics and emote design: Quantifying clarity in digital images. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 11, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 12 / 241216130042.htm ...