A scientist, a jar of pickles and a power strip walk into a room. The punchline involves physics, glowing condiments and a ...

Wounded Civil War soldiers witnessed a mysterious glow that seemed to save their lives. Over a century later, two high school students solved the mystery of “Angel’s Glow.” The answer involved an ...

After decades of hunting, physicists still don’t know what makes up most of the universe’s matter. Now they need to cast a wider net.

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Particle astrophysics is the study of fundamental particles travelling through space, particularly those that reach the Earth. These cosmic rays include photons, protons, alpha particles and neutrinos ...

Informed by science from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and astronomers worldwide, this “documentary that you can walk through” visualizes the cosmos in a 3-D introduction to the universe ...

Experimental particle physics is the practical investigation of the fundamental components of matter and radiation. A crucial tool in the arsenal of the experimental particle physicist is the particle ...

I’ve been working with computers for ages, starting with a multi-year stint in purchasing for a major IBM reseller in New York City before eventually landing at PCMag (back when it was still in print ...

A new calculation helps narrow down the mass of the W boson, one of the heaviest fundamental particles in the universe ...