Stress is a very real factor in the structure of our universe. Not the kind of stress that students experience when taking a ...

When humans think about time, most imagine a steady flow of seconds ticking into minutes and minutes into hours which carry us from past to present to future. But in the science of quantum physics, ...

Scientists have observed a never-before-seen form of oxygen, and its behavior could call into question what nuclear physics says about “magic numbers”. Imagine, if you will, that you could see within ...

Whether as the protons and neutrons that help form chemical elements, the photons that we perceive as light or even the flows ...

The key test passed by sPHENIX to prove it is ready to measure the properties of quark-gluon plasma is called a "standard ...

An extraordinary discovery has recently shaken the world of science. An uncommon isotope, previously unknown to our realm of ...

The top quark’s extreme mass makes it decay almost immediately after it is produced. “The top and antitop quarks just have ...

Atoms are the fundamental building blocks of metallic materials, and their arrangement and distribution determine the ...

A new study led by Southwest Research Institute's Dr. Michael Starkey has provided observational evidence from the SwRI-led ...

In February 2023, a cosmic particle detector housed deep in the Mediterranean Sea recorded the arrival of a neutrino with approximately 20 to 30 times more energy than any other neutrino documented ...

New technologies are enabling scientists to tackle previously elusive physics problems. The macroscopic realm, which consists of everything from falling balls to orbiting planets, can be explained by ...