MIT professor and nuclear physicist Nuno Loureiro was shot and killed at his home this week. The 47-year-old directed the ...

After a decade of painstaking measurements, scientists have delivered a major plot twist in particle physics: a ...

Teachers are grappling with how to incorporate artificial intelligence into education. A handful of schools are structuring ...

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"Precision in these measurements is critical, as even subtle discrepancies could signal deviations from the model — potentially revealing new physics." ...

In the beginning of the universe, matter somehow outmaneuvered antimatter, creating the stuff-filled universe we know and love today. Scientists from two large long-baseline experiments in the U.S.

Now is a surreal time to be a dark matter researcher. Even as research funding is being cut by governments around the world, dark matter remains one of the biggest and most exciting open problems in ...

Neutrinos are one of the most elusive and omnipresent particles in the universe. Their strange properties may explain why the amounts of matter and antimatter in our universe aren’t equal, as most ...

Some planets might produce their own water instead of relying on outside sources. In laboratory experiments, researchers simulated extreme conditions found within certain exoplanets by blasting ...

When physicists at the University of Konstanz shone a flash of light on a simple iron crystal, they weren’t expecting to watch the rules of matter change before their eyes. Yet that seems to be what ...

Scientists have confected a new way to search for dark matter using giant crystals of sucrose, or table sugar – though, so far, they have found only the bittersweet taste of a lack of results. We ...