At the turn of the century, it sounded as if string theory could give us big answers about the universe. Well… has it?

Superconductivity occurs when electrons pair up, rather than scattering apart as they do in normal conductors or in everyday ...

This paper describes the eccentricity, amplitude, phase shift, angular momentum, polarization, radial path, and orbital ...

With a “magic-angle,” MIT researchers have discovered a new path to possible room temperature superconductivity.

Superconductors are like the express trains in a metro system. Any electricity that "boards" a superconducting material can ...

What if I told you that while you can't see dark matter, maybe you can hear it? I know, I know, it sounds crazy…and it is ...

Physicists are eyeing charged gravitinos—ultra-heavy, stable particles from supergravity theory—as possible Dark Matter candidates. Unlike axions or WIMPs, these particles carry electric charge but ...

The Standard Model, depicting the fundamental building blocks of the universe, including top quarks. Courtesy of Cush via Wikimedia Commons Sitong An, a physicist at Carnegie Mellon University, has ...

The ALICE Collaboration is a winner of the 2025 Gizmodo Science Fair for transforming lead into gold for a fraction of a second and exposing the strange physics that goes on inside the Large Hadron ...

Abstract: Particle track reconstruction is an important problem in high-energy physics (HEP), necessary to study properties of subatomic particles. Traditional track reconstruction algorithms scale ...

Big science requires long-term planning. In June, the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine published an unprecedented 40-year strategy for US particle physics titled Elementary ...

Forget about turtles; for all practical purposes, it’s really particles all the way down. Consider the seemingly simple matter of their size, the very thing that makes them so alien. We’re typically ...