Physicists may have just cracked open a hidden side of the quantum world. For decades, every known particle was thought to belong to one of two categories — bosons or fermions — but researchers have ...

09 May 2026

If you could take an apple and break it into smaller and smaller parts, you would find molecules, then atoms, followed by subatomic particles like protons and the quarks and gluons that make them up.

14 May 2026

Eighty years ago, Penn researchers J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly launched the age of electronic computing by harnessing electrons to solve complex numerical problems with ENIAC, the world's first ...

15 May 2026

Physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have uncovered new hints that certain particle decays may not behave as the Standard Model predicts.

12 May 2026

This mystery ghost particle could hold the key to the origin of all the matter in the Universe ...

15 May 2026

For nearly a hundred years, every known particle in the universe belonged to one of two camps. Bosons, like photons, can crowd into the same quantum state without limit. Fermions, like electrons, ...

10 May 2026

An atom is so small you can’t see it, but atoms are everywhere. However, scientists have found that the atom is made up of even tinier particles.

16 May 2026

High-energy cosmic rays, 10 million times more powerful than particles accelerated in Earth's strongest atom smasher, may hide a superheavy secret that is the key to unlocking a 60-year-old puzzle.

13 May 2026

In her second pop-science book, theoretical cosmologist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein returns to her celestial and cultural roots.

13 May 2026

Well, around a similar time, the American Physical Society (APS) invited researchers and science enthusiasts to chime in on 10 broad questions on major concepts—of arguable contention—in physics as a ...

14 May 2026

Despite being the most abundant particles in the universe, neutrinos are notoriously difficult to detect. Could launching a space-based detector close to the sun change that?

13 May 2026