Physics

Superconducting magnets lining the primary proton beamline at the J-PARC accelerator complex in Japan, with safety cones along the walkway

22/12/2024
Particle Physics

Anatoli Bugorski: Why a Proton Beam Didn’t Kill Him

A Sandia National Laboratories researcher at a probe station measures the wavelength of a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser, whose bright emission spot appears magnified on the monitor

22/12/2024
Semiconductors & Electronics

Optoelectronics for High Energy Experiments: Evolution and Emerging Capabilities

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko photographed by ESA's Rosetta spacecraft from 28.6 km, with faint jets of gas and dust rising from its neck

21/12/2024
Science

Where Did Earth’s Water Actually Come From? New Theories Explained

A particle track passes through a translucent polycrystalline diamond sensor bump-bonded to a pixel readout chip; the pixels beneath the track light up red.

21/12/2024
Semiconductors & Electronics

The Future of Particle Detection: Diamond Pixel Sensors

J. Robert Oppenheimer, seated on the left, laughing with members of the State Department's atomic energy consultants in the lobby of the Oak Ridge guest house, Tennessee, in February 1946

17/11/2024
Quantum Physics

J. Robert Oppenheimer: The Architect of the Atomic Age

Particle tracks in the 30-inch hydrogen bubble chamber at Fermilab around 1973: a 300 GeV proton collides with a proton in the liquid hydrogen and produces 26 charged particles, while low-energy electrons spiral in the magnetic field

05/10/2024
Particle Physics

Matter Mysteries Explained: From Democritus to the Standard Model

21/09/2024
Particle Physics

James Clerk Maxwell: The Four Equations That Unified Electricity and Magnetism

Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn in their laboratory at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry in Berlin, around 1913

08/09/2024
Particle Physics

The Path to Nuclear Fission: Key Steps in Atomic Science

08/09/2024
Quantum Physics

The Ettore Majorana Mystery: What Happened to the Quantum Genius?

The open vacuum chamber of the NIST-4 Kibble balance, the instrument that measured the Planck constant used to redefine the kilogram, with its copper coil assembly and steel flanges

07/05/2024
Quantum Physics

Discover the 5 Physical Constants That Govern the Universe

$A fused-quartz gyroscope rotor from NASA's Gravity Probe B, one of the roundest objects ever made, refracting an inverted image of Albert Einstein from the photograph behind it$

10/04/2024
Cosmology & Astrophysics

Explore Gravity’s Secrets: A Journey into the Cosmic Unknown

The Mayall telescope at Kitt Peak, home of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, observing under the Milky Way through its open dome

08/04/2024
Cosmology & Astrophysics

What Is Dark Energy, and How Do Scientists Actually Detect It?

The Bullet Cluster, two colliding galaxy clusters, with hot X-ray gas shown in pink over a field of galaxies, an object used to test ideas about dark matter and antimatter

07/04/2024
Quantum Physics

New Physics: Misteries That the Standard Model Can’t Explain

The Hubble Ultra Deep Field: thousands of galaxies of every shape and age in a tiny patch of sky in the constellation Fornax

05/04/2024
Cosmology & Astrophysics

Is the Universe Finite or Infinite? What Physics Actually Says

A radio telescope dish of the ALMA observatory in Chile's Atacama Desert, tilted toward a star-filled night sky with the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds

02/04/2024
Cosmology & Astrophysics