We carry these mixed feelings into 2026, which is slated to be another great—yet perhaps troubled—year for science. No list ...

This discovery is important because it ruled out a major possibility for new physics beyond the Standard Model.

Traditionally, X-ray methods require at least 10,000 atoms to generate a detectable signal. This is because the X-ray signal ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

Using the world’s most powerful X-ray laser, scientists have filmed atoms performing an eternal quantum dance that never stops — even at absolute zero.

Scientists at the Max Born Institute have developed a new soft-X-ray instrument that can reveal dynamics of magnetic domains on nanometer length and ...

Astrophysicists are turning the universe’s dying stars into laboratories for one of physics’ most elusive ideas, the axion.

Pulsars are some of the most reliable metronomes in the universe, and scientists are now using their flickering radio beams to keep time across the galaxy and sharpen the search for intelligent life.

Electrons determine everything: how chemical reactions unfold, how materials conduct electricity, how biological molecules ...

Far beneath the Black Hills of South Dakota, a tank of liquid xenon is quietly recording some of the faintest signals in the ...

High-precision measurements from the KATRIN experiment strongly limit the existence of light sterile neutrinos and narrow the search for new physics. Neutrinos are extremely difficult to detect, yet ...

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