The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses.

What happens when the smallest building blocks of matter refuse to play by the rules of traditional physics? For decades, ...

Richard Feynman, a famous theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize, said that if he could pass on only one piece of ...

Far lighter than other ions collided at the LHC, oxygen (and neon) could tell us about conditions in the early universe.

Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.

In a study published in Physical Review Letters, scientists at GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung have discovered ...

Scientists are using trapped ions in cutting-edge experiments to hunt for signs of an undiscovered particle that might help unravel the mystery of dark matter. The Standard Model of particle physics o ...

The invisible dark matter is one of the universe's biggest mysteries, and its existence is confirmed only by the ...

Scientists from CERN have measured the speed of sound in the quark-gluon plasmas with record precision, a key step to ...

Scientists are using trapped ions in experiments to search for signs of a new particle that could help explain the mysterious ...

India's National Quantum Mission aims to achieve quantum supremacy through theoretical brilliance and mission execution, much ...

The race to build the first useful quantum computer is on and may revolutionize the world with brand new capabilities, from ...