The particle in question, known as a sterile neutrino, was supposed to only interact with gravity and have zero interactions ...

A team of quantum physicists has taken a concept that once lived purely in equations and turned it into hardware reality, ...

A team of physicists has coaxed a single, photon-like particle into behaving as if it lives in 37 different quantum ...

The theorized unseen structure of spacetime could also explain of the outstanding questions about the accelerating expansion ...

"Dark photon" theory says light's interference patterns may emerge from quantum particles, not waves, upending centuries of ...

Quantum theory and Einstein's theory of general relativity are two of the greatest successes in modern physics. Each works ...

University of Chicago scientists have solved a 20-year-old puzzle in particle physics using data from an experiment conducted for an entirely different purpose. Physicists had long known that ...

Spencer Axani, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is the inventor of CosmicWatch, a portable, low-cost particle detector that tracks muons, invisible particles that ...

Quantum mechanics is weird. When you think you have reached the bottom of its weirdness, you always discover a new ...

From its resting place outside Chicago, Illinois, a long-defunct experiment is threatening to throw the field of elementary particles off balance. Physicists have toiled for ten years to squeeze a ...

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Sam Baron receives funding from the Australian Research Council. The Matter of Everything tells the history of physics through experiments. Any book about the history of science for a general audience ...