Take, for instance, quantum entanglement, which says that the state of one particle can be determined by examining the state of its entangled pair regardless of distance. This strange fact flies in ...

In physics, there are two great pillars of thought that don't quite fit together. The Standard Model of particle physics ...

Scientists are on the trail of a mysterious five-particle structure that could challenge one of the biggest theories in ...

Ia Iashvili helped plan and build the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector of the Large Hadron Collider, the strongest particle accelerator in the world. She is among researchers worldwide who ...

A single, super-energetic subatomic particle left a sparkling trail of light in the depths. And it did so right in the middle of an odd sort of telescope that was partway through construction.

A subatomic particle called the muon caused waves when its experimental behaviour didn't align with a prediction based on the standard model. A new calculation might resolve the discrepancy ...

Rosemary Fowler discovered a type of subatomic particle, the kaon—but left the university before earning her doctorate.

The deviant behavior of a subatomic particle might point to undiscovered forms of matter and energy in the universe. Or it might not. By Katrina Miller Katrina Miller reported on the last result ...

Strange signals from outer space are constantly reaching Earth, hailing from sources like pulsars, quasars, and supernovas. In Antarctica, a signal like this recently seemed to materialize out of ...

It’s been 100 years since a young German unlocked the mysteries of quantum mechanics. See how that gave us smartphones, GPS, MRIs. See what’s next.

But to make a γ-ray of that intensity, you need an even higher energy subatomic-particle to create it, and it’s not exactly clear what that particle is. Xiaojie Wang.

DURHAM, N.C. -- One of the tiniest building blocks of the universe has a weigh-in problem, and Ashutosh Kotwal is determined to get to the bottom of it.. For nearly 30 years, the Duke physicist has ...