Atomic nuclei are often described as orderly systems. Certain numbers of protons or neutrons, called magic numbers, usually ...

From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run ...

Interview with Marumi Kado on the future of particle physics and the origin of everythingFor many people, particle physics is ...

An interview with Marumi Kado highlights the challenges and opportunities of the Future Circular Collider in particle physics ...

Far beneath the Black Hills of South Dakota, a tank of liquid xenon is quietly recording some of the faintest signals in the ...

President Donald Trump recently issued an executive order to launch the Genesis Mission, which will shorten the time for a range of innovations and will bring together the 17 National Laboratories, ...

Neutron stars are ultra-dense star remnants made up primarily of nucleons (i.e., protons and neutrons). Over the course of ...

Observations of the formation of light-nuclei from high-energy collisions may help in the hunt for dark matter.

Scientists have managed to observe solar neutrinos carrying out a rare atomic transformation deep underground, converting ...

Scientists finally caught solar neutrinos triggering a rare atomic transformation once thought nearly impossible to observe.

A decade-long investigation into puzzling neutrino behavior has now ruled out one of the most widely discussed explanations: ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.