Particle accelerators reveal the heart of nuclear matter by smashing together atoms at close to the speed of light. The ...

Every time two beams of particles collide inside an accelerator, the universe lets us in on a little secret. Sometimes it's a particle no one has ever seen. Other times, it's a fleeting glimpse of ...

A microscopic layer of environmental carbon solves a long-standing mystery about static electricity's true origins.

The Sun, which provides us with light and heat, is also the site of immense phenomena. In 2017, a powerful solar flare emitted gamma rays whose origin left astronomers puzzled. These emissions seemed ...

A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of subatomic particles. What happens to these particles within atoms would stay unexplained ...