US researchers have successfully accelerated and stored the first proton beams inside a specialized ...

Researchers in the US have revealed that an emerging class of quantum sensors, called ...

Several massive multimillion dollar experiments should soon reveal more about the nature of these ghostly particles ...

Long-established in accelerator physics, bent crystals are now being explored as tools to measure the fundamental properties ...

Suburban Batavia, just 30 miles west of Chicago, used to be known as the windmill capital of the world. But eventually, ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on March 2, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important ...

Superconductivity is a quantum state of matter characterized by an electrical resistance of zero and the expulsion of ...

Three years ago, in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, the passage of an "ultra-energetic" cosmic neutrino was observed—the ...

An international team combining two major neutrino experiments has uncovered stronger evidence that neutrinos and antimatter don’t behave as perfect mirror images. That subtle difference may hold the ...

A single particle cut through the Mediterranean in February 2023 carrying an almost absurd amount of energy. Detected deep ...

From the early scattering experiments of Rutherford to the colliding beam experiments that produced the top quark with a mass almost as large as Rutherford's gold nucleus, particle beams have been the ...