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

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

(NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using Suomi NPP VIIRS data from Miguel Román, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center) Physicists have conducted a worldwide hunt for dark matter. Literally ...

12 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

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

For nearly a century, scientists have been trying to identify dark matter, the mysterious material believed to account for about 85% of all matter in the universe. Despite its enormous influence on ...

12 Sep 2026

The joint BepiColombo mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is settling into orbit around Mercury after an eight-year journey. In early September ...

10 Sep 2026