As the name suggests, particle accelerators involve accelerating subatomic particles to incredibly high speeds and smashing ...

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 ...

The 2024 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for their fundamental discoveries in machine learning, which paved the way for how artificial intelligence is used ...

The Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to three scientists whose research demonstrates a way to create extremely short pulses of light that can provide information about processes inside atoms and ...

Twenty years after high-profile cases of fraud, research ethics has come a long way. But there is still much to be done. In April 2024, Nature released detailed information about investigations into ...