Toshihide Maskawa, a dedicated peace advocate who won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics for his theoretical research on elementary particles, died on July 23. He was 81. In 1973, Maskawa, a professor ...

The supercollider is now being used to explore quantum phenomena, including a “magic” form of quantum entanglement.

ST. LOUIS ? Quark stars, exotic objects thathave yet to be directly observed, are part of a new theory to explain some ofthe brightest stellar explosions recorded in the universe.

Recreating the conditions present just after the Big Bang has given experimentalists a glimpse into how the universe formed. Now, scientists have begun to see striking similarities between the ...

Say what you will about high-energy physicists, they don't have any problems with self-"teem: they see their field as the queen of sciences and regard as their due a huge $11 billion particle-smashing ...

Thanks to a new development in nuclear physics theory, scientists exploring expanding fireballs that mimic the early universe have new signs to look for as they map out the transition from primordial ...

Three American physicists shared the $1,3-million Nobel prize for physics for calculating the bizarre properties of the ultimate fragments of matter. They provided the mathematics for a completely new ...

University of Chicago scientists have solved a 20-year-old puzzle in particle physics using data from an experiment conducted for an entirely different purpose. Physicists had long known that ...

For a few millionths of a second after the Big Bang, the universe consisted of a hot soup of elementary particles called quarks and gluons. A few microseconds later, those particles began cooling to ...