Plasma, the fourth state of matter, consists of a gas in which electrons are no longer bound to atoms, which allows electricity to flow freely. When beams of particles moving close to the speed of ...

On April 30, 2026, scientists worldwide reported major advances in particle acceleration, from space-based cosmic ray ...

Dinosaur DNA may still be out of reach, but scientists are uncovering something almost as exciting—ancient blood vessels ...

A tiny discrepancy in particle physics has loomed for decades as an exciting possible crack in one of science’s most ...

A major obstacle in calculating the muon’s behavior is the strong force, the most powerful of the four fundamental forces, along with gravity, electromagnetism, and the weak force. It binds quarks ...

The muon mismatch was caused by calculation limits, not a new force. Improved methods bring theory and experiment into close ...

For a few years, one of particle physics’ most unsettling numbers seemed to be pointing somewhere strange. The trouble centered on the W boson, a heavy particle that carries the weak force, one of ...

"First predicted by Askaryan in 1962, this radiation has its origin in the netnegative charge generated in the moving shower ...

Three life-science prizes were awarded for advances in gene therapies. Opthalmologists Jean Bennett and Albert Maguire, and ...

Scientists are testing giant accelerators to "burn" nuclear waste, shrinking its hazard time from 100,000 to 300 years while ...

The rise of a new generation of radiotherapies means we will soon need much greater quantities of radioactive atoms. That's ...