A mathematical equivalent of a microscope with variable resolution has shed light on why some atoms are exceptionally stable, ...

For the first time, physicists have developed a model that explains the origins of unusually stable magic nuclei based ...

In what is probably the creepiest image on the internet comes a lesson as to why we don’t make pregnant women go through a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine. You might have seen a few pictures ...

In terms of the Quasiparticle Model, a single particle travels through a sea of fermions, which include electrons, protons, or neutrons, and interacts persistently with its neighbours.

University of Chicago researchers have begun examining data collected by a device transported by a NASA balloon that flew ...

Immediately after the Big Bang boomed, the Universe was a trillion-degree ' soup ' of unimaginably dense plasma. In a ...

This kind of ‘magic’ could lead to a computer revolution.

What would it actually be like if every particle in your body converted into a dark matter particle? And how long could you last in that state? Everything that we can see in the Universe is a massive ...

Why did this particle mysteriously disintegrate?

It's well established that the universe is expanding, but there's serious disagreement among scientists over how fast it's happening.

Extreme solar activity or even a software glitch could put us just days away from a satellite collision in low-Earth orbit.

"We are moving from post-diction to prediction," said Raghu Kulkarni. "These papers demonstrate that the confusing constants ...