In its first moments, the infant universe was a trillion-degree-hot soup of quarks and gluons. These elementary particles zinged around at light ...

Part one of a four part series on the fundamental forces (or interactions) of physics begins with the strong force or strong ...

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

Primordial black holes could rewrite our understanding of dark matter and the early universe. A record-breaking detection at ...

A Winnipeg teacher was suspended without pay for five days after he mimicked a crying student last year, says a disciplinary decision posted in the recently unveiled Manitoba teacher registry.

An obscure theory of elementary particles proved to be key to China’s re-emergence as a scientific nation after the Cultural ...

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Brookhaven National Laboratory have been named 2025 Fellows of the American Physical Society (APS). The honor recognizes their excellence in physics and exceptional service to the physics community.

Smaller than an atom, but majorly important: introducing the quark! Quarks helped make sense of particle physics, and we'll ...

As the Dark Energy Survey (DES) releases its final results, we caught up with two physicists who've been involved in the project from its early days. In this Q&A, Josh Frieman, DES co-founder and ...

Scientists have found new evidence that a pattern of “flow” observed in particles streaming ...

Scientists analyzing data from heavy ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)—the world's most powerful particle ...