Buried deep below the American Midwest, a new kind of observatory is taking shape that aims to watch some of the most elusive particles in the universe as they stream straight through Earth. The Deep ...

The Bugatti Veyron did not simply raise the bar for fast road cars, it redrew the limits of what physics would allow on ...

Solving the nuclear many-body problem is a key challenge in nuclear physics – it deals with understanding the behavior of the protons and neutrons (called nucleons) inside atomic nuclei. These ...

The Genesis Mission directs the DOE to accelerate AI-driven energy, science and national security breakthroughs across U.S.

All it takes is a simple coding change. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A student's tweak in quantum computing code could double ...

The Senior Project in physics provides the opportunity for students to complete their undergraduate education by engaging in research, individually or as part of a major research project. The Physics ...

Upland High School students took to the field with homemade trebuchets Friday, Oct. 6, to test their physics prowess by flinging objects as far as they could. Trebuchets are a type of catapult that ...

After a two-decade wait that included a long struggle for funding and a move halfway across a continent, a rebooted experiment on the muon — a particle similar to the electron but heavier and unstable ...

It's an annual tradition for students at one local high school that makes physics fun. Each fall, usually on Halloween, the ...

Prof. Emeritus Roger Hildebrand, who worked on the Manhattan Project as an undergraduate before conducting pioneering work in particle physics and astrophysics at the University of Chicago, died Jan.