The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a major new scientific facility jointly funded by the US National Science Foundation ...

Proponents of building the next big particle collider in Japan expressed their disappointment today at the latest statements on the topic from government officials. Scientists have proposed building ...

Looking up at the stars at night, it may not be obvious that the universe is constantly changing. But it is: Stars are dying; comets are flying; and supermassive black holes are growing ever more ...

Inside an ordinary-looking cupboard in an ordinary-looking office, scientists at CERN store a small glass vial filled with 10 grams of lead. But this is no ordinary metal. The lead in this vial is ...

In the late 1890s, physicist Max Planck proposed a set of units to simplify the expression of physics laws. Using just five constants in nature (including the speed of light and the gravitational ...

In the beginning, a spaceship called the Yggdrasil is sailing through the cosmos to find a new home for its long-term inhabitants. Suddenly, the ship is hit by a stray asteroid, damaging the hydrogen ...

In the wee hours of July 17, an old tree in the Swiss countryside let out a groan, then a crack. A moment later, about 35 miles away, CERN engineer Jose Antonio Ferreira Somoza heard his phone ding.

With enough time and magnifying power, a telescope can gather all the light it needs to create a pretty complete portrait of a single, distant galaxy. But some scientists are opting for a more ...

When it was first discovered in 2012, the Higgs boson captured the popular imagination and became the subject of intense scientific scrutiny. One way scientists knew for sure that the object they ...

Building a bathroom scale for neutrinos Back in 1980, Robertson and Bowles developed a new idea for making a direct neutrino mass measurement. But there were only a few places that had the equipment, ...

The construction of a large-scale particle accelerator like the Large Hadron Collider at CERN requires a staggering investment of time, resources, and labor. To make the best use of its efforts in ...

After struggling to connect with peer study groups and being turned away by potential research advisors, Hazari decided to pivot into physics education. It was there that she discovered a concept that ...