Real particles are lumps of energy that can be "seen" or detected by appropriate instruments; this feature is what makes them ...

Virtual particles exploit the natural fuzziness of the subatomic world, where if these ephemeral particles live briefly enough, they can also briefly borrow their energy from empty space. The haziness ...

Evidence of this quantum layer may be coming soon. Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: Physicists are still puzzling over ...

According to the model, dark matter may have started as particles that were hot, light, massless, and fast. As the universe ...

Below the waves of the Mediterranean, Europe's KM3NeT neutrino telescope is on a cosmic hunt. Towering strings of sensors ...

Facilities that make particles called B mesons may seem obscure, but they could help explain why there is more matter than ...

Diagnosed with terminal heart cancer and given 18 months to live, a neuroscientist credits the deep love of his wife for ...

It is once again Nobel Prize season, and this year’s top prize in physics honours three quantum physicists for their discovery of “macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling an ...

Researchers suggest that dark matter might subtly color light red or blue as it passes through, revealing traces of its ...

Mayly Sanchez is the Wyatt-Green Chair of Physics at Florida State University and served as one of four liaisons who helped ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to a trio of scientists – a Briton, a Frenchman and an American – for their ...