You can't see, feel, hear, taste or smell them, but tiny particles from space are constantly raining down on us.

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 ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

Scientists have found a way to see ultrafast molecular interactions inside liquids using an extreme laser technique once ...

A team of quantum physicists has taken a concept that once lived purely in equations and turned it into hardware reality, ...

About ten years ago, scientists began exploring an unconventional idea for studying the brain: using bioluminescent light to ...

When people name the most important inventions in history, light bulbs are usually on the list. They were much safer than earlier light sources, and they made more activities, for both work and play, ...

When a laser experiment fails to produce the expected flash of light, most researchers would assume something went wrong with ...

We often think of memories like the contents of a museum: static exhibits that we view to understand the present and prepare ...

Researchers use laboratory tools every day to help them make groundbreaking discoveries. Read on to find out which ...

Laurent Simons, a 15-year-old Belgian researcher, has earned a PhD in quantum physics and says his work in ultracold systems ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three scientists-Dr. John Clarke (Professor Emeritus, University of California ...