The experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) detect rare events on a daily basis, but some are exceptionally rare, such as this latest result from the CMS collaboration. For the first time, the ...

If a break-in takes longer than three minutes, most burglars bail. That’s the whole game. You don’t need a fortress or a ...

Anomalous” heat flow, which at first appears to violate the second law of thermodynamics, gives physicists a way to detect quantum entanglement without destroying it.

Second Life allows people to lead two lives -- one in the real world and another in the virtual. But in a way, Second Life itself leads two lives. In its first, well-publicized life, it's a forum for ...

Albert Einstein, everyone’s favorite wild-haired genius with a mischievous grin, is more than just a pop culture icon whose legend lives on today. He’s arguably the most influential scientist of the ...

Learn more about the Society of Physics Students with SPS Director and AIP Student Engagement Officer Alejandro de la Puente ...

In a Physical Review Letters study, the HOLMES collaboration has achieved the most stringent upper bound on the effective ...

When cars were weird, they were clever. From Aztek coolers to hose-out floors, here are the so-called 'bad' ideas that ...

New research reveals how ghost particles may break the universe’s symmetry, offering clues to why matter—and life—exist at all.

In a rare global collaboration, scientists from Japan and the United States joined forces to explore one of the universe’s ...

I’m not very keen on doing my own landscaping, but I know many men are. It can be pretty dangerous if you’re not careful, though. And the dangers go beyond butchered shrubs. One wrong move could send ...

Physicists chilled a sugar crystals then used them to search for dark matter. This new project is called SWEET.