Researchers say they are alarmed by reports that the Department of Energy’s Office of Science, the largest U.S. funder of the ...

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

From an image of a detector hunting for signs of dark matter to a picture of a deep-sea neutrino telescope studying ...

Scientists have used CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to uncover what they say is an entirely new type of particle, dubbed ...

Upgrades and new research at Argonne are helping physicists push boundaries, from basic science to the development of new technologies. The world’s first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear reaction ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Virtual reality, or VR, is not just for fun-filled video games and other visual entertainment. This technology, involving a computer-generated environment with objects that seem ...

Welcome to the first Physics World Particle & Nuclear Briefing bringing you the best of our recent coverage in these two areas, including – of course – plenty on CERN, which is celebrating its 70th ...

Grant cuts of nearly 70% may force university departments to close and ‘annihilate’ research, scientists say ...

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The BEam COoler and LAser spectroscopy (BECOLA) facility at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) allows high-precision measurements of nuclear charge distributions. Credit: Kei Minamisono, FRIB.

Physicists have shown that particles produced in collimated sprays called jets retain information about their origins in subatomic particle smashups. Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE ...

NEWPORT NEWS, VA – Inside the nucleus of the atom, the building blocks of matter are anything but static. Individual particles are in a constant state of energetic motion, like dancers on a dance ...