Nearly a decade ago, a detector searching for ghostly cosmic particles found two anomalous signals in Antarctic ice. But scientists haven’t been able to find anything similar.

20 Jun 2025

Next week, physicists will meet in Venice to discuss the future of European particle physics research. Early in his career, Karl Jakobs worked on physics experiments that had a few hundred ...

17 Jun 2025

A force that couples electrons and neutrons could be an addition to the Standard Model, and a new study places an upper limit on this hypothetical force’s strength.

18 Jun 2025

Strange pulses that don't seem to abide by the laws of particle physics have been detected in Antarctica. These radio waves, emanating from below the ice, could be evidence of dark matter and have ...

16 Jun 2025

The deep ocean can often look like a real-life snow globe. As organic particles from plant and animal matter on the surface sink downward, they combine with dust and other material to create "marine ...

21 Jun 2025

ANITA was placed in Antarctica because there is little chance of interference from other signals. To capture the emission signals, the balloon-borne radio detector is sent to fly over stretches of ice ...

16 Jun 2025

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 ...

18 Jun 2025

The charge radius is a statistical measure of how far the electric charge of a particle extends into space. Both groups were mystified by the discrepancy in the values – which hints at physics beyond ...

20 Jun 2025

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will make the study of stars and galaxies more like the big data-sorting exercises of contemporary genetics and particle physics.

20 Jun 2025