Scientists working at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider may be seeing the strongest hints yet of physics beyond the Standard Model — the decades-old theory that explains the fundamental particles and ...

Quantum mechanics is a physics framework that describes how matter and energy behave at an extremely small scale, specifically at the scale of atoms and subatomic particles. An effect predicted by the ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — The next frontier of technology is coming to Knoxville as the University of Tennessee launches its very own quantum accelerator. The accelerator, dubbed K-Quantum, uses the ...

One reason to test ever larger Schrödinger’s kittens is they might show us that quantum mechanics itself breaks down before ...

Explore 25 strange facts science can't explain, from cosmic signals to dark matter. Dive into the universe's most baffling ...

The most energetic "ghost particle" neutrino ever detected may have been blasted at Earth by blazars, black hole engines that ...

Once dismissed as empty expanses between galaxies, cosmic voids are becoming one of the most promising tools for probing the ...

Ultrahigh energy cosmic rays may be made of nuclei heavier than iron, according to a May 2026 Penn State study in Physical ...

Mystery no more Artist’s conception of the magnetic moment of the muon – a sub-atomic particle similar to, but heavier than, ...

Scientists have discovered that ultraheavy atomic nuclei could explain some of the highest-energy cosmic rays ever observed.

In less than a millionth of a second after a nuclear detonation or a severe nuclear reactor accident, an enormous burst of ...