To probe the "knee" more precisely, scientists need to measure the energy spectra of individual types of cosmic rays, such as protons, helium and heavier nuclei. But cosmic rays in this energy range ...

In 1932, physicists glimpsed antimatter for the first time — a strange mirror image of regular matter with mind-bending ...

When grown vertically into aligned arrays, known as nanotube “forests,” they form ideal channels for the corkscrewing laser ...

The study was published in Nature Biotechnology last month and marks a shift in scientists’ understanding of how to ...

Researchers Sang-Ho Kim, An-Ping Li, Bronson Messer and Zac Ward of the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory ...

Researchers used IBM’s quantum computers to create scalable quantum circuits that simulate matter under extreme conditions, offering new insight into fundamental forces and the origins of the universe ...

LHAASO has uncovered that micro-quasars, black holes feeding on companion stars, are powerful PeV particle accelerators.

A physicist with a penchant for the morbid and a writer with a taste for the macabre have looked at the gruesome science ...

Milestone results released by the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) on November 16 have solved a ...

A particle accelerator that produces intense X-rays could be squeezed into a device that fits on a table, my colleagues and I ...