While gluons are responsible for generating most of the visible mass in the universe, their role inside nuclei remains poorly understood. These massless particles mediate the strong nuclear force, ...

Researchers create a photonic engine that can manipulate microwave and optical signals and convert the signals between the ...

Minimizing vibration is usually achieved by doing experiments on optical tables, which are very large, heavy and rigid in order to dampen motion. Therefore, when a cryogenic cooler (cryocooler) is ...

Yet not everything went according to plan. Although the room was full of curious students, each time the floor opened for ...

From swirling oil paints to the grin of a Cheshire cat, this Physics World Stories episode brings quantum science to life ...

Conventional accelerators use oscillating electric fields to drive charged particles to relativistic speeds. The Large Hadron ...

Nick Stone discusses some of the many ways in which light can be used for diagnostic and therapeutic applications ...

An ultrasensitive small-animal PET scanner can image the entire body of a rat with sub-second temporal resolution ...

New measurements of the universe’s expansion using James Webb Space Telescope appear to resolve the Hubble constant conflict ...

Based in Cerro Pachón in the Andes, the Vera C Rubin Observatory contains the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) – the largest camera ever built. Taking almost two decades to build, the 3200 ...

The charge radius is a statistical measure of how far the electric charge of a particle extends into space. Both groups were ...

“Pump up the volume” by M|A|R|R|S or Ireland’s 1990 football song “Put ‘em under pressure” are obvious candidates for ...