In physics, there are two great pillars of thought that don't quite fit together. The Standard Model of particle physics describes all known ...

The discovery itself is simple and fundamental, but the applications stretch far and wide into astrophysics and quantum ...

On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, proclaiming that the United States was no ...

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

Take a serene autumn walk along the river to the beautiful Sirzenicher Waterfall, nestled in the Trier region of Germany.

Almost a thousand of the world’s top space scientists will visit Durham University next week (7 to 11 July) as we host the UK’s National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) 2025. NAM is the flagship annual event ...

A distant cluster of galaxies is wrapped in a vast halo of high-energy particles that could be the work of supermassive black ...

John Peoples was asked in the mid-1990s about the value of doing pure scientific research — that which has no predetermined benefit. “Knowledge is a form of wealth,” he replied. “It is an ...

Almost a thousand of the world's top space scientists will visit Durham University next week (7 to 11 July) as we host the UK's National Astronomy ...

Filmed to mark CERN’s seventieth anniversary, The Peace Particle combines poetry, music and rare archival footage, alongside special access to the Large Hadron Collider, to reveal how CERN was born ...

This week, more than 600 scientists met in Venice, Italy, to debate the future direction of European particle physics in the global context. The Open Symposium is an important step in the ongoing ...

Scientists say 95% of the universe is made of invisible matter and energy. How can we study what we cannot see — and what ...