The formation of Mercury remains an unsolved mystery. The planet closest to the sun has a disproportionately large metallic core—accounting for about 70% of its mass—and a relatively small rocky ...

This summer, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) took a breath of fresh air. Normally filled with beams of protons, the 27-km ring was reconfigured to enable its first oxygen–oxygen and neon–neon ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is making significant strides in the realm of physics, demonstrating immense potential across ...

In June 2025, physicists met at Saariselkä, Finland, to discuss recent progress in the field of ultra-peripheral collisions.

When supermassive black holes recoil from a collision, they can reach speeds of up to 1/10th the speed of light, new research suggests. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

"We have good reason to suspect that new physics beyond the standard model might be lurking just around the corner." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Artificial intelligence is poised to take LIGO's search for gravitational waves to the next level, with Google's help.

An international team of physicists has studied how particles are produced in high-energy electron–proton collisions through the lens of entanglement entropy Entanglement entropy has emerged as a new ...

In a recent paper for the Journal of High Energy Physics, researchers with the sPHENIX Collaboration announced that it had ...

A new biography of Luis Alvarez captures the details but misses the drama in the career of a scientist whose work ranged from the Manhattan Project to the death of the dinosaurs. By Jennifer Szalai ...