Over a century ago, Ernest Rutherford discovered the proton by splitting the atom in a laboratory in Manchester. Today, researchers based in Manchester have discovered a new particle that Rutherford ...

This week, CERN announced that it has detected a new particle at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) called the Xi-cc-plus. It's a very heavy particle, with a mass four times that of ...

A team of physicists at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria has now identified what breaks that symmetry: a thin, ...

For more than a century, condensed matter physics has grappled with one of its greatest unsolved challenges: how to build ...

Six thousand eight hundred feet below the floor of an active nickel mine in northern Ontario, something has gone extremely cold. Not cold in the way of a walk-in freezer, or a liquid nitrogen tank, or ...

The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment is one of the most ambitious scientific projects ever attempted, built to study particles so elusive they pass through the Earth almost without a trace. By ...

This event will host a critical forum where Italian-American scientist Dario Crosetto has submitted a 500-word abstract and 2-page summary detailing a breakthrough in radiation signal detection. TBPET ...

A microscopic layer of environmental carbon solves a long-standing mystery about static electricity's true origins.

Our world added another great mystery this week. Stonehenge, the pyramids, the Bermuda Triangle, D.B. Cooper and now, the ...

Pretoria - Discovering safe ways to treat diabetes based on indigenous knowledge of medicinal plant remedies earned local scientist Dr Nehemiah Latolla top spot in the South African leg of the ...

Tiny pieces of plastic, called microplastics, are showing up everywhere, even in the water in clouds, rain, and snow—and they may be affecting our weather and temperatures. A study published in ...

Time is not what it appears to be. It is not a river carrying reality forward, but a structural framework within which ...