At CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), lead atom nuclei, accelerated in opposite directions, collide at speeds close to the ...

Researchers have shown that abstract mathematical functions from the frontiers of theoretical physics have a real-world use ...

Don Pettit spent a busy 220 days at the International Space Station. He conducted experiments, talked with students and ...

The blazar BL Lacertae, a supermassive black hole surrounded by a bright disk and jets oriented toward Earth, provided ...

Elsewhere some warm spells of hazy sunshine, though a scattering of showers likely across ... It added: “Some light rain or showers are possible across southern and western areas, but other ...

In photos The details in this photograph include the airglow of the atmosphere dividing Earth from space — yellow-green at an altitude of 75 miles and a faint reddish hue 250 miles above the ...

An unprecedented experiment seven years in the making has shaken the field of neuroscience. Researchers set out to answer one ... didn’t fully hold up. While there was some activity in that ...

Fiber optic cables have powered global Internet traffic for decades. They carry vast amounts of data each second, connecting ...

Scientists at Europe’s famous particle collider briefly created gold ions from lead in a modern twist on the alchemical goal ...

What's particularly surprising is that the backaction disappears precisely when light scattering is ... This opens up new possibilities for quantum experiments and potentially more sensitive ...

In a move that reeks of Biblical hubris, they’re set to approve experiments aimed at “dimming” the sun -- yes, the sun, God’s greatest gift of light and ... ends up in a worse-case ...