Spencer Axani, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is the inventor of CosmicWatch, a portable, low-cost particle detector that tracks muons, invisible particles that ...

Princeton researchers say their two-camera approach offers the most detailed footage of a nano-sized particle to date, which could ultimately shed light on how viruses and cells interact. Elizabeth ...

It has been thought of as many things: a pointlike object, an excitation of a field, a speck of pure math that has cut into reality. But never has physicists’ conception of a particle changed more ...

Shot over seven years, Mark Levinson’s documentary “Particle Fever” follows the ambitious team of experimental physicists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) as they try to get ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

He's not quite as elusive as the sub-atomic particle that bears his name, but 82-year-old professor Peter Higgs rarely meets the press. So it's worth pointing out that a certain theoretical physicist ...

In late June, a team of American astrophysicists published a pre-peer-reviewed paper on the net. It claimed that massive “invisible” bosenovas may be occurring all around us all the time. Advisory ...

The Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP) is going to take up the case of sub-atomic particle boson, derived from an Indian scientist's name... The God particle, or Higgs Boson, interestingly ...

Physicists are beginning to unravel the mysteries of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays, particles accelerated by the most powerful forces in the universe. Read Later On the night of October 15, 1991, the ...

Last week I wasted a happy hour at the local bookstore flipping through Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum by Leonard Susskind and Art Friedman. While it's definitely a book for people who ...