As Quirks & Quarks celebrates its 50th anniversary, Bob McDonald looks back at a half century of science and peers forward to the next 50 years.

There’s been a new comet in the sky over the past few weeks, but now is the prime time to see it for yourself.

CBC Radio's Quirks and Quarks asked some of Canada’s leading scientists to imagine what the next half-century might bring.

A research team led by Rice University physicist Frank Geurts has successfully measured the temperature of quark-gluon plasma ...

A team at CERN has reported the observation of a new type of particle made up of four quarks. This discovery could enhance ...

The strong nuclear force may abruptly loosen its grip on the fundamental particles that make up matter at a special “critical ...

Tickets for the Nov 10 event, happening at 7 p.m. at the Guelph Youth Music Centre, are available online. The evening will ...

Facilities that make particles called B mesons may seem obscure, but they could help explain why there is more matter than ...

One of the most prominent examples of quantized values lies within the structure of atoms. Electrons orbiting the nucleus ...

For most of our history, scientists have primarily believed that the universe is eternal and unchanging. Aristotle in the fourth century BC asserted that the world is without beginning or end. But ...