The simplest questions are often the best. Robert P Crease tries to answer one from a physics student in Kenya Seeking perfection Tennis balls are a low-cost way to explore simple physics concepts, ...

A lot of the science from our accelerators is published long after collisions end, so storing experimental data for future ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. There are precision measurements, and then there’s the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. In each of LIGO’s twin ...

In the culmination of a US community planning process that began in late 2020, the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel has approved the recommendations of the P5 Report. The US particle physics ...

Scientists in the United States have come up with a physics-based algorithm that could one day make it possible for nuclear ...

Circular vision The Future Circular Collider – a huge 100 km-circumference particle smasher – would be used to study the Higgs boson in unprecedented detail as well as search for new physics.

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Telling the story of the COVID-19 pandemic is complicated. What’s the best way to combine research on medical, economic and policy issues related to the virus and compile that into an easy-to-digest ...

AIP Publishing is excited to announce the publication of the first issue of its newest open access journal, APL Computational Physics. The journal offers a dedicated open access platform for ...

Materials scientist David D. Awschalom is reflected in mirrors set up in his lab, October 15, 2018. Awschalom works on quantum networking Argonne National Laboratory. (Jean Lachat / ANL / University ...