Physicists at ETH Zurich in Switzerland have a novel plan to uncover an unknown fifth force of nature long theorized to exist ...

Physicists confirm DT fusion insights from a 1938 experiment. The findings connect past theory with current fusion efforts. A ...

During those very early moments of the universe, things were extraordinarily hot, and quark-gluon plasma behaves in strange ...

The question of where atoms come from requires a lot of physics to be answered completely – and even then, physicists only have good guesses to explain how some atoms are formed.

Explore ETH Zurich’s cutting-edge experiments on fundamental forces and dark matter. Click to read the full story now ...

Many heavy atoms form from a supernova explosion, the remnants of which are shown in this image. NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage ...

Scientists are using trapped ions in cutting-edge experiments to hunt for signs of an undiscovered particle that might help ...

The invisible dark matter is one of the universe's biggest mysteries, and its existence is confirmed only by the ...

Scientists are using trapped ions in experiments to search for signs of a new particle that could help explain the mysterious ...

Richard Feynman, a famous theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize, said that if he could pass on only one piece of ...

(A deuteron is the nucleus — one neutron and one proton — of a deuterium atom.) In what is nearly an aside in the ... of Michigan physicist George Uhlenbeck, co-discoverer of electron spin. And though ...

An atom consists of a heavy center, called the nucleus, made of particles called protons and neutrons. An atom has lighter ...