Facilities that make particles called B mesons may seem obscure, but they could help explain why there is more matter than ...

A researcher, Heikki Mäntysaari from the University of Jyväskylä (Finland), has been part of an international research group ...

A recent Physical Review Letters study presents a new model for quark star merger ejecta that could resolve whether these ...

Knowable Magazine reports that neutrinos may help explain the universe's missing antimatter, shedding light on matter-antimatter imbalance.

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

Physicists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have challenged long-held assumptions about black holes and now estimate up to a 90% chance of observing a primordial black hole explosion within ...

Jon Rosner was a distinguished theoretician who made profound contributions to particle physics. Credit: J Rosner Jonathan L Rosner, a distinguished theoretical physicist and professor emeritus at the ...

Imagine you are out on a walk. Outside the house in the fresh air you may have left the walls behind, but even so there are boundaries that limit where you can wander. In a city, you are constrained ...

On this week's episode of Quirks & Quarks with Bob McDonald: Every summer, Canadian scientists leave their labs and classrooms and fan out across the planet to do research in the field. This week, ...

A stereotypical image of a scientist is someone in a white lab coat peering into a microscope in a laboratory full of test tubes and exotic equipment. While lab work is an important element of ...

Recent progress in both analog and digital quantum simulations heralds a future in which quantum computers could simulate — and thereby illuminate — physical phenomena that are far too complex for ...