As the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology draws to a close, Margaret Harris revisits some of the year’s ...

A simple explanation of dark matter and antimatter, how they differ, how scientists study them, and why both are important to understanding the universe.

When black holes collide, the impact radiates into space like the sound of a bell in the form of gravitational waves. But ...

Heat is not supposed to behave like this. In everyday life, warmth seeps and diffuses, spreading from hot to cold in a slow, ...

What is the nature of dark matter? A new experiment led by Columbia University physics professors aims to find out.

Rapid advances in the kind of problems that quantum computers can tackle suggest that they are closer than ever to becoming ...

From silent, unexplained sounds resonating across the globe to the strange energy density of empty space, these 13 bizarre mysteries continue to baffle researchers in 2026, proving that the more we ...

Sound is usually treated as the most familiar of physical phenomena, the background noise of daily life rather than a ...

Two papers challenged the existence of theorized particles called sterile neutrinos that might account for mysteries like the cosmos’s dark matter. By Kenneth Chang Just how many types of neutrinos ...

The setup of the experiment in the optical lab, with the semiconductor crystal containing the double slits in the centre. Credit: Leiden University. More than 200 years ago, physicist Thomas Young ...

The Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has successfully completed the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) and released its first physics results.

TL;DR: This experiment may not revolutionize telecommunications, but it highlights how accessible these concepts have become outside traditional research labs. Using nothing more than an iPad, a solar ...