Subtle quantum effects within atomic nuclei can dramatically affect how some nuclei break apart. By studying 100 isotopes ...

Seismic wave measurements suggest the supervolcano beneath the popular national park is unlikely to erupt any time soon ...

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Five is a crowd Physicists have shown how interactions between five atoms can create a tetramer and a single free atom. (Courtesy: Shutterstock) Five-body recombination, in which five identical atoms ...

Repulsive gravity at the quantum scale would have flattened out inhomogeneities in the early universe First light The cosmic microwave background, as imaged by the European Space Agency’s Planck ...

Emma Chapman reviews Battle of the Big Bang: The New Tales of Our Cosmic Origins by Niayesh Afshordi and Phil Halper Before the bang That the universe evolved from a "hot Big Bang" is not in question, ...

In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast I am in conversation with James Wootton, who is chief scientific officer ...

Image is the first taken on the surface of another planet, and the first visible-light aurora image from anywhere other than ...

In the quantum world, observing a particle is not a passive act. If you shine light on a quantum object to measure its ...

Borrowing from industry, the team has created its vertexing detector using an array of modified mobile-phone camera sensors ...