Long before quantum mechanics existed, a scientist developed a powerful way of describing motion by drawing an analogy between particles and light.

In a cavernous tunnel beneath the French–Swiss border, physicists have briefly recreated conditions that existed microseconds after the Big Bang and, in the process, knocked lead atoms into becoming ...

From seafloor crawlers and continent-scale earthquake monitors to the most powerful lasers and particle colliders ever built, this video counts down 10 of the world’s largest scientific mega-tools.

Using the world's most powerful particle accelerator, CERN's Large Hadron Collider, scientists have discovered that the trillion-degree hot primordial "soup" that filled the cosmos for mere millionths ...

Klaus Kirch is head of the Laboratory for Particle Physics in the PSI Center for Neutron and Muon Sciences and a professor at ETH Zurich. He is director of the now-approved NCCR Muoniverse.

The second paper, "Fermion Chirality from Non-Bipartite Topology," applies this same lattice geometry to the quantum world.

CERN's ALICE experiment has resolved the puzzle of deuteron formation, showing that most deuterons form via resonance-driven ...

Time feels like the most basic feature of reality. Seconds tick, days pass and everything from planetary motion to human memory seems to unfold along a single, irreversible direction. We are born and ...

The space physicist Michele Dougherty has stepped aside as president of the Institute of Physics, which publishes Physics World. The move was taken to avoid any conflicts of interest given her ...

For each of these 160 researchers, the Niels Bohr Library & Archives will forever be connected to them, in a footnote at ...

Metal clusters made of thousands of atoms showed quantum interference, offering new insight into how large objects follow quantum rules.