With undisguised pride, Los Alamos, N.M., the birthplace of the atomic bomb, announced on Oct. 2 the arrival of a new member ...

Neutron stars are extraordinarily dense objects, the densest in the Universe. They pack a lot of matter into a small space ...

More durable than bronze, higher than Pharaoh’s pyramids is the monument I have made, a shape that angry wind or hungry rain cannot demolish, nor the innumerable ranks of the years that march in ...

Old or new, sedimentary or igneous, some of the Earth's crust drifts below the surface at subduction zones, where one continental plate overlaps another. When it does, some of it melts, eventually ...

The temperature of elementary particles has been observed in the radioactive glow following the collision of two neutron stars and the birth of a black hole. This has, for the first time, made it ...

For the first time, two dark matter experiments have detected a neutrino fog, a dense cloud of neutrinos. This discovery is ...

Researchers are working on technology that could follow NASA’s Europa Clipper mission and hunt for life in the ocean of ...

Physicists began to refer to both “tau” and “theta” particles as the “kaon.” The fundamental force that causes radioactive decay—including the decay process that Fowler discovered—is called the weak ...

Scientists have demonstrated a new way to use high-energy particle smashups at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)—a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facility for nuclear ...

Scientists demonstrated a new way to use high-energy particle smashups at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a world ...