Fundamental physics

How did the proton, photon and other particles get their names?

The Heavy Photon Search at Jefferson Lab is looking for a hypothetical particle from a hidden “dark sector.”

Protons are colliding once again in the Large Hadron Collider.

Sensitive gamma-ray “eye” on NASA’s Fermi space telescope continues to provide unprecedented views of violent phenomena in the cosmos.

A new result from the Daya Bay collaboration reveals both limitations and strengths of experiments studying antineutrinos at nuclear reactors.

Boston University physicist Tulika Bose explains why there's more than one large, general-purpose particle detector at the Large Hadron Collider.

Explore the fourth dimension, from processes that occur in billions of years down to tiny slivers of a second.

Join us for five days of ultrafast science from April 17 to 21.

Two astrophysicists and a theoretical physicist discuss how the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will probe the nature of dark matter and dark energy by taking an unprecedentedly enormous scan of the sky.

Astrophysicists Eric Charles and Mattia Di Mauro discuss the surprising glow of our neighbor galaxy.

Detectors long used to look at the cosmos are now part of X-ray experiments here on Earth.

Why can a neutrino pass through solid objects?