What happens when the smallest building blocks of matter refuse to play by the rules of traditional physics? For decades, ...

Using an advanced Monte Carlo method, Caltech researchers found a way to tame the infinite complexity of Feynman diagrams and ...

Amidst the destruction of the first atomic bomb test, mathematically perfect quasicrystals—a “forbidden” kind of matter whose existence had long been contested—rained down in the debris. Atomic bomb ...

Studying an atomic clock on-board a spacecraft inside the orbit of Mercury and very near to the Sun could be the trick to uncovering the nature of dark matter.

Scientists have proposed a new way to discover the nature of dark matter: using ultraprecise atomic clocks to monitor the quantum vibrations of atoms near the sun. Skip to main content.

Twisted materials—known as moiré structures—have revolutionized modern physics, emerging as today's "alchemy" by creating ...

This aspect of the quantum theory has made it difficult to adhere absolutely to the program of materialistic philosophy and to designate the smallest particles of matter as being “truly real.” ...

The origins of dark matter can be traced to the 1600s. Soon after Isaac Newton presented his theory of universal gravity, some astronomers began to speculate about the existence of objects that ...

There's a lot of matter to go under the cosmic bridge yet, but a new theory suggests that 95 percent of the universe is filled with a weird "dark fluid." Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor ...

Einstein is the very model of the absent-minded professor, with his shock of white hair and basset-hound eyes and gnomic ...

Astronomers have finally found the last of the missing universe. It’s been hiding since the mid-1990s, when researchers decided to inventory all the “ordinary” matter in the cosmos — stars and planets ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Experiments with Floating and Suspended Magnets, Illustrating the Action of Atomic Forces, the Molecular Structure of Matter, Allotropy ...