Using sound to get objects to float works well if a single particle is levitated, but it causes multiple particles to ...

Neutron stars are ultra-dense star remnants made up primarily of nucleons (i.e., protons and neutrons). Over the course of ...

Photons, for centuries both a puzzle and a tool, continue to help scientists illuminate nature at the smallest and largest ...

Two papers challenged the existence of theorized particles called sterile neutrinos that might account for mysteries like the ...

With contributions from Brown faculty and students, the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment analyzed the largest dataset ever collected by ...

Key TakeawaysThe LZ collaboration expanded their search for low-mass WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles) using the ...

Dark matter is special in that it doesn't emit, absorb or interact with light, so science had to find a more creative way to ...

Scientists have observed the largest-known rotating structure in the cosmos - a gargantuan thread-like assemblage of hundreds of galaxies, gas and dark ...

Scientists hunted dark matter and solar neutrinos with one of the largest experiments yet. While the neutrinos likely ...

Sebastian Mizera just joined the physics department as an assistant professor, researching quantum field theory.

Quantum theory fails to explain how the reality we experience emerges from the world of particles. A new take on quantum ...