Deep underground in southern China, there is a 20,000-ton tank of liquid that can detect neutrinos. Named JUNO, the detector's first results are in — and they're very promising.

27 Nov 2025

The supercollider is now being used to explore quantum phenomena, including a “magic” form of quantum entanglement.

25 Nov 2025

UChicago physics Prof. Bonnie Fleming, who is also the chief research officer at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, is the new IRL’s deputy director. Visiting scholar Cédric Cerna will serve as ...

25 Nov 2025

What was once the leading explanation for dark matter may have simply been underestimating the mass of the particles that make it up.

26 Nov 2025

Energy that would normally go to waste inside powerful particle accelerators could be used to create valuable medical isotopes, scientists have found.

25 Nov 2025

If findings are correct, astronomer Tomonori Totani told Newsweek, this may finally solve "the greatest mystery in cosmology." ...

25 Nov 2025

In the early 1930s, Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky observed galaxies in space moving faster than their mass should allow, prompting him to infer the presence of some invisible scaffolding—dark ...

25 Nov 2025

In the early universe, moments after the Big Bang and cosmic inflation, clusters of exotic, massive particles could have collapsed to form bizarre objects called cannibal stars and boson stars. In ...

26 Nov 2025

At full capacity, the data center could supply the equivalent of nearly four million ten-minute showers per year. This provides both a financial boost, saving the university around £240,000 ($324,163) ...

27 Nov 2025