The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a major new scientific facility jointly funded by the US National Science Foundation ...

Looking up at the stars at night, it may not be obvious that the universe is constantly changing. But it is: Stars are dying; comets are flying; and supermassive black holes are growing ever more ...

Getting there Before building the DUNE detectors, scientists must test and validate their technology. Scientists at European research center CERN have taken on this task by building and operating a ...

Inside an ordinary-looking cupboard in an ordinary-looking office, scientists at CERN store a small glass vial filled with 10 grams of lead. But this is no ordinary metal. The lead in this vial is ...

In the late 1890s, physicist Max Planck proposed a set of units to simplify the expression of physics laws. Using just five constants in nature (including the speed of light and the gravitational ...

Outweighing regular matter by a factor of five, but so far invisible to scientists’ experiments, dark matter is (literally) one of the biggest mysteries in our universe. A podcast from the ...

In the beginning, a spaceship called the Yggdrasil is sailing through the cosmos to find a new home for its long-term inhabitants. Suddenly, the ship is hit by a stray asteroid, damaging the hydrogen ...

With enough time and magnifying power, a telescope can gather all the light it needs to create a pretty complete portrait of a single, distant galaxy. But some scientists are opting for a more ...

When it was first discovered in 2012, the Higgs boson captured the popular imagination and became the subject of intense scientific scrutiny. One way scientists knew for sure that the object they ...

Building a bathroom scale for neutrinos Back in 1980, Robertson and Bowles developed a new idea for making a direct neutrino mass measurement. But there were only a few places that had the equipment, ...

Nima Arkani-Hamed Professor, Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton Theoretical physicist In Particle Fever, theorist Nima Arkani-Hamed says on camera, “I’ve spent the last 15 years thinking about ...

HBCUs have played an important role in bringing Black students into physics. Prior to 2003, HBCUs consistently graduated the majority of Black physics-degree holders. In the year 2000, HBCUs enrolled ...