For a trillionth of a second, lead became gold in CERN’s collider. The fleeting transformation may shape the future of ...

A relatively small detector caught neutrinos from a nuclear reactor using a technique known as coherent scattering ...

Physicists have caught neutrinos from a nuclear reactor using a device weighing just a few kilograms, orders of magnitude ...

Now, a new study has used computer models to reveal that lightning strikes as the result of a powerful chain reaction that ...

An experiment that scattered high-energy electrons from helium-3 and tritium nuclei has provided the first evidence for three-nucleon short-range correlations. The data were taken in 2018 at Jefferson ...

Though atomic nuclei are often depicted as static clusters of protons and neutrons (nucleons), the particles are actually ...

The first black hole images stunned the world in 2019, with headlines announcing evidence of a glowing doughnut-shaped object ...

The new measurement from LHCb has found differences between baryons and antibaryons, which are made of three quarks and three antiquarks respectively. Significantly, baryons make up most of the known ...

We’re building machines that are smarter than anything we’ve ever created — but we’ve barely thought about what will power ...