When considering what makes up a human body, a physicist drills down beyond the atomic level. Columnist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein explores the not-exactly-real particles that allow the stuff we’re made ...

14 Jul 2026

Pioneering Italian physicist Fabiola Gianotti, who led one of two experiments that led to the discovery of the Higgs boson, which has been nicknamed the "God particle," is set to be the subject of a ...

10 Jul 2026

A truly useful quantum computer must be able to run any algorithm, with the same versatility an ordinary laptop offers. Physicists have now shown a new way to give a quantum computer exactly that ...

16 Jul 2026

For the first time, researchers have developed a way to create chilled molecules containing the radioactive element radium. The resulting laboratory concoctions, generated in part through steps ...

16 Jul 2026

Neutrinos are the most abundant particles in the universe, with trillions crossing our bodies every moment, but they are difficult to study because of their weak interaction with matter.

15 Jul 2026

Imagine shining a flashlight across a dark room. You can predict exactly what the light will do: travel in a straight line from one point to another. That seems obvious, because in the world we see ...

15 Jul 2026

A new theoretical framework suggests dark matter’s elusive behavior may arise from the geometry of a hidden fifth dimension. Credit: Shutterstock. The geometry of a hidden dimen ...

16 Jul 2026

Researchers have recreated the physics of extracting energy from a spinning black hole using a stationary device that produces synthetic ultrafast rotation. The achievement transforms a long-standing ...

11 Jul 2026

Researchers at cybersecurity firm Proofpoint have discovered that a “suspected China-aligned threat cluster named UNK_MassTraction” is ...

15 Jul 2026

Smoke from the Canadian wildfires is causing hazy orange skies and a red-tinged sun. The reason behind those colors has to do with physics. The sun emits light in a rainbow of dif ...

16 Jul 2026

Physicists from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) have examined a fundamental property of quantum mechanics in collaboration with the German Aerospace Center (DLR). In the scientific journal ...

12 Jul 2026