Does light behave more like a particle, or like a wave? Today we know the surprising answer. Here's why it took so long to get there.

21 Nov 2024

Stanford professor Helen Quinn presented the Howard L. Schultz Sr. Price Lecture on the early days of the Standard Model and the theory of the axion.

19 Nov 2024

The Large Hadron Collider yields another particle physics discovery.

21 Nov 2024

At 100, the impact of Bose-Einstein Statistics extends beyond physics to fields like cosmology and condensed matter science ...

20 Nov 2024

When studying the smallest particles that make up our world, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN is quite possibly the best place to do it. During an experiment called NA62, researchers were able to ...

21 Nov 2024

Banks of computer screens stacked two and three high line the walls. The screens are covered with numbers and graphs that are unintelligible to an untrained eye. But they tell a story to the operators ...

18 Nov 2024

Scientists employ high-energy heavy ion collisions as a powerful tool to uncover intricate details of nuclear structure, offering insights with broad implications across various fields of physics. Sci ...

19 Nov 2024

Another popular method is to bombard nuclei with high-energy electrons, analysing the scattering data to infer structural details. However, this technique only reveals localized properties of the ...

19 Nov 2024

Carnegie Mellon physicists use AI to analyze large datasets from experiments, predict complex physical phenomena and optimize simulations.

15 Nov 2024