Deep under the Antarctic ice, instruments built to catch ghostly particles have stumbled on something stranger than anyone ...

Understanding The Quantum Of Energy What Is A Quantum Of Energy? So, what exactly is a quantum of energy? Think of it like ...

A year's worth of data shows South Bay residents are constantly exposed to low levels of hydrogen sulfide gas from the ...

Dark matter is special in that it doesn't emit, absorb or interact with light, so science had to find a more creative way to ...

Scientists hunted dark matter and solar neutrinos with one of the largest experiments yet. While the neutrinos likely ...

With contributions from Brown faculty and students, the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment analyzed the largest dataset ever collected by ...

The EU is founded on values such as fundamental rights, democracy and the rule of law. These values are at the heart of the EU’s purpose and its principles, and the EU aims to protect and promote them ...

Quanta Books is delighted to announce two new upcoming books by mathematician Terence Tao and theoretical physicist David ...

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

Neutron stars are ultra-dense star remnants made up primarily of nucleons (i.e., protons and neutrons). Over the course of ...

A boiling sea of quarks and gluons, including virtual ones—this is how we can imagine the main phase of high-energy proton ...

Before Einstein, before Bohr, there was a Jesuit priest with a telescope and a startlingly modern vision of the universe.