Buried deep below the American Midwest, a new kind of observatory is taking shape that aims to watch some of the most elusive particles in the universe as they stream straight through Earth. The Deep ...

Determining the "loudest recorded sound" depends on how you define sound and on which measurements you choose to include.

Teachers are wearily getting on with the reformed Leaving Cert, but there are some things they just can’t do – like stopping ...

Einstein doubted the core idea of complementarity by Niels Bohr. Bohr said quantum objects act like waves and particles.

A joint effort between two of the world’s largest neutrino experiments has brought scientists closer to understanding how the ...

Spaceflight, genetic tinkering, and the psychological implications of technological acceleration are explored with accuracy ...

SQUIRE aims to detect exotic spin-dependent interactions using quantum sensors deployed in space, where speed and ...

CONSTRUCTION has begun on a laser that will be 100 times brighter than its predecessor, and a million, billion, billion times brighter than ...

Beginning in the mid-20th century, Western intellectuals began dismantling the concept of objective truth. Postmodern ...

Odd radio waves emanating from the ice don’t fit our model of particle behavior. Could they be a sign of dark matter?

Neutrinos – you may have heard of them referred to as "ghost particles" – pass through everything because they are extremely ...

Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr had an ongoing rivalry about the true nature of quantum mechanics, and came up with a thought ...