If you could take an apple and break it into smaller and smaller parts, you would find molecules, then atoms, followed by ...

If you could take an apple and break it into smaller and smaller parts, you would find molecules, then atoms, followed by ...

An atom is so small you can’t see it, but atoms are everywhere. However, scientists have found that the atom is made up of ...

In this video, we explore the origins of the first atom, tracing back to the big bang, where immense energy condensed to form ...

New research suggests a particle inside an atom can lose mass, offering a fresh look at how matter works at the smallest scale.

After winning a Breakthrough Prize, the world’s most lucrative science award, theoretical physicist David Gross is using the moment to warn of nuclear war’s existential threat—and how we can escape it ...

He applies the logic he has used all his life in physics, such as cumulative probability, repeated risk, and system behavior, ...

Professor of Theoretical Physics Risto Paatelainen from the University of Turku in Finland has spent nearly ten years working on a single unanswered question in particle physics. He aims to find out ...

The universe looks like it is mostly empty space. Remove the stars, planets, dust, and gas, and what remains is nothing at all. Physics tells a stranger story. The vacuum is not truly empty. It is ...

At that speed, it would take Voyager 1 about 500 million years to reach the center of the Milky Way. Based on those numbers, the likelihood of human beings ever engaging in interstellar travel is ...

Physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have uncovered new hints that certain particle decays may not behave as the ...