With little in the way of significant discoveries since 2012, there have been mutterings that particle physics is at a dead end. However, new dark matter results suggest an exciting new way to hunt fo ...

09 Sep 2026

On October 9, 2022, two space telescopes, Swift and Fermi, picked up the brightest gamma-ray burst ever recorded. Researchers nicknamed it BOAT — "brightest of all time" — official designation GRB ...

12 Sep 2026

Physicists suspect that there's a whole realm of invisible matter out there, contributing its mass to that of the stuff we can see to produce the observed gravitational effects. Since it doesn't ...

12 Sep 2026

The Secret Archives of Particle Physics Down in the basement of my own lab—the Laboratory of Nuclear and High-Energy Physics (LPNHE, CNRS and Sorbonne University, Paris)—roughly sixty reels of ...

10 Sep 2026

The Cosmic Ray Division of the A. I. Alikhanyan National Laboratory has published its first dedicated meteorological study, using long-term observations from the Aragats Research Station at 3,200 ...

11 Sep 2026

While the effective interaction between the particles appears to break Newton’s third law, it doesn’t because there is no violation of momentum conservation, explains Sumino: momentum is transferred ...

11 Sep 2026

Monash Physics and Astronomy researchers predict stable “quantum droplets” form from mixtures of bosons and fermions—a result challenging decades of ultracold particle behavior.

13 Sep 2026

Researchers have confirmed that a new class of quantum materials that could dramatically improve ...

14 Sep 2026

Twist on classic Brownian motion experiment could help test bounds of quantum theory and aid search for new particles ...

10 Sep 2026

In 2022, researchers detected a very odd photon from an enormous gamma ray burst that should have been destroyed on its way to Earth ...

08 Sep 2026

A massive worldwide survey of physicists has revealed surprisingly little agreement about some of the universe’s biggest mysteries. No majority backed the standard cosmological model, a leading ...

12 Sep 2026