Scientists have found “strange quarks” that originated as virtual particles that sprang from nothing Quantum physics paints a strange picture of the world, one filled with spooky connections, ...

A supercharged neutrino that smashed into our planet in 2023 may have been spit out by an exploding primordial black hole ...

Iridium oxide is one of the most important—and most problematic—materials in the global push toward clean energy. It is ...

Physicists have long relied on the idea that electrons behave like tiny particles zipping through materials, even though quantum physics says their exact position is fundamentally uncertain. Now, ...

Pure mathematics isn’t renowned as a field that most directly addresses challenges in the real world. But a new research centre at Hiroshima University in Japan is on a mission to overturn that ...

A team of physicists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently hypothesized that the event that occurred in 2023, when a subatomic particle called a neutrino crashed into Earth with such ...

Scientists found organic compounds in the asteroid Bennu samples that are essential for life on Earth, but it could also contain molecules that may be necessary for forming consciousness. A theory ...