In the coming years, an unprecedented number of people will leave planet Earth—but it’s becoming increasingly clear that deep ...

The neutrino was 30 times more energetic than any other previously observed particle of its kind. Scientists still don’t know ...

Quantum calculations amount to sophisticated estimates. But in 1931, Hans Bethe intuited precisely how a chain of particles ...

While entanglement has been demonstrated in very small particles, University of Chicago scientists are thinking big, ...

The photoelectric effect, first explained by Albert Einstein in 1905, laid the foundation for quantum mechanics. It occurs when high-energy light strikes atoms, releasing electrons. This phenomenon is ...

Among these fundamental concepts is wave-particle duality (WPD), a key concept and a gateway ... students believe that both photons and electrons travel along sinusoidal trajectories. This seems to be ...

Ripples, like ones produced by raindrops falling in a puddle, are also called capillary waves. Studied since antiquity, they ...

Scattering takes place across the universe at large and miniscule scales. Billiard balls clank off each other in bars, the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A neutrino detector submerged in the Mediterranean Sea has sniffed out the most energetic ghost particle yet, ...

A huge detector in the Mediterranean Sea spotted the most energetic neutrino from space to date. The particle could shed light on the universe’s most extreme phenomena.

In the search for elusive particles called neutrinos, researchers are stringing thousands of detectors in the depths of the ...