The Pauli exclusion principle is a cornerstone of the Standard Model of particle physics and is essential for the structure ...

Physicists at Heidelberg University have developed a new theory that finally unites two long-standing and seemingly incompatible views of how exotic particles behave inside quantum matter. In some ...

After 25 years, Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider—the U.S.’s largest particle collider—has ...

Cosmology and quantum physics both offer tantalizing possibilities that we inhabit just one reality among many. But testing that idea is challenging.

Physicists have watched a quantum fluid do something once thought almost impossible: stop moving. In experiments with ...

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

Right now, molecules in the air are moving around you in chaotic and unpredictable ways. To make sense of such systems, ...

When the universe first burst into being, all of space was a cosmic cauldron filled with a roiling, fiery liquid of ...

The UK government is to slash by 30 percent its funding for astronomy, particle and nuclear physics in a move branded as ...

Even before competing in his first Olympics, 21-year-old Ilia Malinin has transformed the sport of figure skating.

The UK is scrapping more than £250mn of planned funding for four big physics infrastructure projects, including an upgrade of the Cern particle accelerator led since last month by a senior British ...