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

25 Nov 2025

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

Specifically, physicists and philosophers tend to conflate what it means for something to exist and what it means for something to happen — treating occurrences as if they exist. Once that distinction ...

29 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

Scientists have detected an unusual gamma-ray halo around our Milky Way galaxy. This signal, observed by NASA's Fermi telescope, has a specific energy ...

28 Nov 2025

Physicists have long known how lightning ends, in a blinding discharge that can heat air hotter than the surface of the Sun, but the precise trigger that starts a bolt inside a cloud has remained ...

28 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

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

Michigan State University astrophysicists are closing in on one of space science’s biggest mysteries: where the galaxy’s most energetic particles come from. Their studies uncovered a pulsar wind ...

26 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

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

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