But only in the last 70 years have we known for certain they were there. In 1956, physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines ...

A former Harvard physicist is drawing global attention with a claim that sounds more like theology than astrophysics: he says ...

Record-breaking experiment shows that a cluster of thousands of atoms can act like a wave as well as a particle.

A professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, he was a key contributor to a landmark paper that laid out how the ...

Harvard physicist and professor, Dr. Avi Loeb, takes exception to critics about his theories of possible alien life in the universe, especially those he calls "theologians who argue that they don't ...

A physicist and materials engineer pioneering nanoscale optoelectronic devices and methods – which deliver faster internet ...

The researcher is reported to have left the US to take up a position at the University of Electronic Science and Technology ...

Quantum mechanics is one of the most successful theories in science — and makes much of modern life possible. Technologies ranging from computer chips to medical-imaging machines rely on the ...

Peter Higgs stands in front of a photograph of the Large Hadron Collider at the Science Museum in London in 2013. The year before, researchers smashing protons together at the collidor had discovered ...

The Nobel-Prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs has died at age 94. He was celebrated for his work on the mass of subatomic particles. Today the University of Edinburgh announced the death of the Nobel ...