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 ...

Papers by laureates in the top-ranked Nature and Science journals accounted for less than 10% of citations in the background documents, while Physical Review Letters garnered 40% of citations.

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

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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 ...

The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2016 has been awarded to three theoretical researchers for their insights into the odd behavior of matter in unusual phases, like superconductors, superfluid films ...

When NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope begins science operations in 2027, it will use a space-bending effect first predicted by Einstein back in 1916 in an attempt to crack one of science's ...

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

John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton, seen in picture, are awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physics, which is announced at a press conference by Hans Ellergren, center, permanent secretary at the ...