Physicists know that their elegant theoretical description of forces and particles – the Standard Model – must be incomplete, ...

Quantum physics once shocked scientists by revealing that particles can behave like waves—and now, that strange behavior has ...

Subatomic particles, gravity wells and the beginning of the universe – these are difficult and mysterious concepts that are better understood with storytelling and metaphor. That's exactly theoretical ...

A new study by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) now bridges ...

New high-altitude measurements have revealed a hidden population of extremely small, organic-rich aerosol particles in the lower stratosphere. The findings suggest that these ultrafine aerosols, ...

Antimatter is a brain-bending thought experiment come to life, and physicists have just proved they can transport it. Physicists just packed 92 anti-protons into a special magnetic crate and drove ...

Seemingly empty vacuums are actually teeming with perturbations known as virtual particles that are nearly impossible to detect. Virtual particles vanish quickly, but by smashing protons at ...

In a world first, scientists have experimentally verified the entanglement of the momentum of atoms, a feat previously only achieved with photons. Scientists from Australia and the U.S. pulled off ...

Regina G. Barber is a co-host of Short Wave, NPR's science podcast. Barber completed her PhD in physics at Washington State University with a focus in astrophysics, studying globular cluster systems.

After 25 years, Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider—the U.S.’s largest and only particle collider—has ceased operations, but its science lives on ...