As the demand for nuclear security solutions grows, distinguishing a benign medical isotope from a potential threat is ...

Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg asked that the officer work as a liaison to the Pentagon for the spy agency, sources ...

The new CMS study examined collisions between oxygen nuclei, which are much smaller than lead nuclei. Oxygen contains just 16 ...

Scientists working at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider may be seeing the strongest hints yet of physics beyond the Standard Model — the decades-old theory that explains the fundamental particles and ...

Gold has been a treasured material for various cultures for thousands of years. This enduring appeal comes from a combination ...

Prepare to have your worldview shattered! Discover 25 science facts that will break your brain, revealing the universe's most astonishing and mind-bending ...

Gold doesn’t tarnish like similar metals do. A new paper says that the key is the intricate “herringbone” pattern of its atoms.

Gold’s characteristic glow famously doesn’t fade for thousands of years—and scientists have finally found the molecular trick that makes it so. Reading time 3 minutes If you own gold jewelry, you ...

A major physics experiment has uncovered evidence for a strange new form of matter, where a fleeting particle gets trapped inside a nucleus. This exotic state may reveal how mass is generated, ...

Solids, liquids and gases. In a solid like this brick, the particles are regularly arranged touching their neighbours and move only by vibrating. This explains why solids have a fixed shape. In a ...

Artist’s conception of the mystery of the magnetic moment of the muon—a sub-atomic particle similar to, but heavier than, an electron (represented by the Greek letter mu). More than half a century of ...

A weird force that skirts traditional physics norms has helped erase a smudge on the foundations of particle physics. It’s a phenomenon called the “neutrino force,” by which neutrinos could ...