"I have a philosophy that I do not employ my doctoral students; I make then go abroad after they have defended their theses.

Quarks unexpectedly breaking symmetry in a recent experiment may transform our fundamental understanding of matter and the ...

A team of physicists has embarked on a journey where few others have gone: into the glue that binds atomic nuclei. The ...

The European Organization for Nuclear Research, better known as CERN, is one of the few places on Earth capable of routinely ...

Two UT Austin physicists were part of a collaboration that won the Breakthrough Prize for work at the Large Hadron Collider.

The ZEUS laser facility's 2 petawatt experiment marks a milestone in high-field science, enhancing research capabilities ...

Antimatter can be produced at CERN, but not precisely researched. That is why it will soon be transported on public roads ...

Optical Surfaces Ltd has delivered a 305 mm diameter spherical mirror to the GSI Helmholtz Zentrum für Schwerionenforschung in Germany for use in novel particle acceleration experiments.

For centuries, the transformation of lead into gold was the ultimate goal for alchemists, a dream fueled by the similar ...

Physicists working at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland have produced small amounts of gold – by accident.

In the quantum world, observing a particle is not a passive act. If you shine light on a quantum object to measure its position, photons scatter off it and disturb its motion. This disturbance is ...

Scientists say they have figured out the universe’s ‘death date’, when everything we see in the night sky will disappear ...