Particle Physics

Innovations The world’s first nuclear clock can detect changes in nature’s fundamental constants

A global research team has created the most sensitive nuclear clock ever, using thorium-229 to measure shifts in nature’s fine-structure constant.

Innovations Scientists built a microscopic ‘ocean’ on a silicon chip to study quantum waves Shy Cohen

Space Neutrinos may hold the key to solving the universe’s biggest secrets Mac Oliveau

Discoveries Quantum ‘doorway states’ finally explain mysterious electron behavior in solids Mac Oliveau

Innovations Scientists unlock the full power of quantum computing with neglected particles

Innovations Quantum breakthrough enables scientists to reverse the flow of time

Discoveries When light waves collide something incredible happens, study finds

Space Dark matter particles may live longer than the universe itself, study finds

Innovations Scientists fire most powerful US laser ever—100 times Earth’s total energy usage

Innovations Quantum state of electrons measured for the first time ever

Space Breakthrough theory links Einstein’s relativity and quantum mechanics

Discoveries Physicists record the most precise neutrino mass measurement ever

Space Black holes could reveal the universe’s most hidden particles – possibly even dark matter

Discoveries MIT scientists capture first images of quantum interactions

Discoveries Major achievement in quantum mechanics redefines quantum computing, encryption

Discoveries Physicists capture historic first look at the internal structure of a neutron

Space Levitating diamonds spin at 1.2 billion RPM to unlock quantum gravity