A new estimate of the ghostly particle’s maximum possible mass brings physicists a tad closer to understanding the universe.

It is no heavier than 0.45 electron volts (eV) — less than one-millionth the mass of an electron, the next-lightest known ...

Physicists have discovered that electronic excitations in 2D magnets can interact through spin waves – ripples in a ...

A research team has successfully fine-tuned the Rabi oscillation of polaritons, quantum composite particles, by leveraging ...

The standard model can’t explain dark matter or the unknown particles that determine the nature of the Higgs field, among other major questions in particle physics. But it is not clear from ...

Evidence suggests that we are suspended in a cosmic sea of dark matter ... on the intersection of particle physics with cosmology, astrophysics and the quantum nature of gravity.

Controlling nature by bulldozing dirt and pouring concrete has long been the guiding vision of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. For 250 years that ethos inspired both awe and disgust.

The matter making up the world around us has long ... to prove this has been included in the research paper published in Nature, on which this announcement is based. And due to a fraught history ...

In the quest for a dark matter particle, scientific attention has gravitated to a ... CMZ is suggesting that we may be closer to identifying evidence on the possible nature of dark matter." ...

We are at a critical time and supporting climate journalism is more important than ever. Science News and our parent organization, the Society for Science, need your help to strengthen ...

Dr. Conley is the author of “The Social Genome: The New Science of Nature and Nurture.” Since Francis Galton coined the phrase “nature versus nurture” 150 years ago, the debate about what ...

Neuroscientists have shown that experiencing nature can alleviate acute physical pain. Surprisingly, simply watching nature videos was enough to relieve pain. Using functional magnetic resonance ...