Deep underground in southern China, there is a 20,000-ton tank of liquid that can detect neutrinos. Named JUNO, the ...

In 1887, one of the most important experiments in the history of physics took place. American scientists Michelson and Morley ...

Using a precisely aligned pair of laser beams, scientists can now hold a single aerosol particle in place and monitor how it ...

Photons, for centuries both a puzzle and a tool, continue to help scientists illuminate nature at the smallest and largest ...

The speed of light has been one of science’s most trusted markers of stability. For more than a century, the idea that light ...

Quantum theory fails to explain how the reality we experience emerges from the world of particles. A new take on quantum ...

Using lasers as tweezers to understand cloud electrification might sound like science fiction but at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria ...

Aerosols are tiny particles of liquid or solid material that drift through the air and are constantly present in our surroundings. Some are big enough to spot, like spring pollen, while others, ...

We can't see dark matter directly, so studying it pushes the boundaries of our creativity as scientists. How exciting, says ...

The new study led by Prof Tomonori Totani of the University of Tokyo analysed Fermi telescope observations of the Milky Way's ...

Several leading quantum gravity theories predict that there is a dependence of the speed of light on photon energy, which would bridge ...

An expanding universe complicates this picture just a little bit, because the universe absolutely refuses to be ...