It's a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across ...

Masato Shiozawa, a professor of elementary particle studies at the University of Tokyo’s Institute for Cosmic Ray ... won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002 for the first detection of neutrinos, ...

Experts believe the universe may have a built-in 'self-destruct button' called false vacuum decay which could destroy the ...

From Montezuma’s fall to the discovery of the Higgs boson, this week in history spans Aztec tragedy, American independence, ...

Muon radiography relies on the muon, a kind of subatomic particle very similar to the electron, except it’s about 200 times more massive and lasts only a few millionths of a second.

The LSST camera at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has released its jaw-dropping first images, each capturing 45 times the area ...

The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has unveiled the very first “mega” images of the cosmos obtained thanks to the extraordinary features and wide-field view of its LSST camera—the largest ...

For decades, he hid his time-travel obsession. Now, he is challenging the assumptions that underpin our universe.

Solving life's great mysteries often requires detective work, using observed outcomes to determine their cause. For instance, ...

Entanglement ~ A short science fiction story of a not-so improbable future Author’s Note: In a “New York Times” survey, when asked if they could travel back in time, 42% of the respondents said that ...

But axions were pushed aside as the WIMPs hypothesis gained more steam. Back-of-the-envelope calculations showed that the ...

A festinating new theory shifts focus from space to time, arguing the clock-ticking we take for granted is richer and weirder ...