A new measurement method suggests that the proton, a crucial subatomic particle in the Universe, is smaller than previously believed. All visible matter in the ...

Physicists chilled a sugar crystals then used them to search for dark matter. This new project is called SWEET.

Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of ...

Neutron stars, these cosmic remnants resulting from the catastrophic explosion of massive stars, represent one of the most ...

Rice University researchers have captured the temperature profile of quark-gluon plasma, the ultra-hot state of matter from ...

Scientists studying a 4.4-million-year-old fossil named Ardi may have uncovered the evolutionary step that turned ancient ...

Physicists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a revolutionary way to look inside an atom’s ...

Theorists have found that a “warm” version of cosmic inflation is consistent with known physics, linking it to the hunt for ...

Where does gold really come from? It turns out that the glittering metal on Earth has its roots in violent cosmic events — ...

A supersolid is a paradoxical state of matter—it is rigid like a crystal but flows without friction like a superfluid. This ...

A team of UC Riverside engineers has discovered why a key solid-state battery material stays remarkably cool during operation ...