Wu designed and executed an experiment that questioned — and then disproved — the infallibility of parity. After freezing a ...

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New results from the MicroBooNE experiment rule out the existence of a sterile neutrino, reshaping how scientists think about ...

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Experimental particle physicists working at the MicroBooNE experiment at Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory have found ...

This new propulsion system could rewrite the rules of spaceflight—not to mention completely defy conventional physics.

Physicists discovered that the famous ‘Star Trek’ spaceship got a lot right about designing a ship to jump from galaxy to ...

The encryption protecting billions of dollars, which experts once called unbreakable, no longer works. Hackers don’t need passwords. They don’t brute-force keys. They simply walk through digital ...

C hina has decided to take hypergravity to a whole new level – testing both materials and fundamental physics in a regime we ...

In an earlier blog post about Christopher Nolan's latest blockbuster movie, Interstellar, I lauded the film for its ambition, ...

The revelation of DNA’s chemical structure made it possible to understand how it might replicate and direct the growth of ...

Physicists are quietly testing an audacious idea: that the mass of everything around us might not come from an invisible ...