Dark matter is an elusive type of matter that does not emit, reflect or absorb light, yet is estimated to account for most of ...

Astronomers have captured images of two stellar explosions—known as novae—within days of their eruption and in unprecedented ...

Not to sound like a broken record, but I'll say it again: the variety of creative expression in what is inadequately labeled "Latin music" continues to astound me. From the bossa ...

In both NOvA (NuMI Off-axis νe Appearance experiment) and T2K experiments, neutrinos are fired from particle accelerators and detected after traveling long distances underground. The challenge is ...

You can’t accuse those who title “NOVA” episodes of burying the lede with “Ancient Desert Death Trap.” There are mysteries afoot, for sure. But a viewer will have the unavoidable suspicion that doom ...

Introducing our October Artist of the Month — Motion City Soundtrack. The renowned 30-year-old rock band just released their first album in 10 years, and 7th overall – The Same Old Wasted Wonderful ...

The amplituhedron is a geometric shape with an almost mystical quality: Compute its volume, and you get the answer to a central calculation in physics about how particles interact. Now, a young ...

Dipangkar Dutta receives funding from US Dept. of Energy and NSF. A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of subatomic particles. What ...

George Fitzgerald Smoot III, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose experiments about space provided some of the most convincing evidence that the universe began with a Big Bang, died on Sept. 18 in ...

As the name suggests, particle accelerators involve accelerating subatomic particles to incredibly high speeds and smashing them into tiny targets. Particle accelerators, also known as particle ...

How a mysterious particle could explain the universe’s missing antimatter Everything we see around us, from the ground beneath our feet to the most remote galaxies, is made of matter. For scientists, ...

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 ...