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Spencer Axani, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is the inventor of CosmicWatch, a portable, ...

A unified theory – that explains the interactions in the standard model of particle physics from one common origin – has been ...

The particle in question, known as a sterile neutrino, was supposed to only interact with gravity and have zero interactions ...

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New results from the MicroBooNE experiment rule out the existence of a sterile neutrino, reshaping how scientists think about ...

Particle and nuclear physics evokes evokes images of huge accelerators probing the extremes of matter. But in this round-up ...

In high-intensity laser–matter interactions, including laser-induced particle acceleration, physicists generally want to work ...

As science produces an ever-growing flood of information, researchers in many fields struggle with how to collect, store, manage and distribute “big data.” Perhaps they could learn a thing or two from ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are conducting a study to assess key science questions that will drive research in the field of elementary particle physics for the next ...

In 1963, Maria Goeppert Mayer won the Nobel Prize in physics for describing the layered, shell-like structures of atomic nuclei. No woman has won since. One of the many women who, in a different world ...