Scientists saw a quark plowing through primordial plasma for the first time, offering a rare look at the first moments after ...

Physicists in Germany have carried out the most accurate measurement to date of the width of the proton. By examining a previously unexplored energy-level transition in the hydrogen atom, Lothar ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are helping to pave a path for the eventual discovery of dark matter. With new approaches to measurement in the quantum realm, ...

Using gold flakes, salt water, and light, scientists have made the universe’s invisible binding forces visible in color. The discovery opens new possibilities for studying how matter organizes itself ...

Mountain Home hasn’t had much luck in passing bonds to build new schools. But as luck would have it, the school district doesn’t need local property taxes to foot the bill for its next building. The ...

When the universe first burst into being, all of space was a cosmic cauldron filled with a roiling, fiery liquid of ...

After 25 years, Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider—the U.S.’s largest particle collider—has ...

The famed collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory has ended operations, but if all goes to plan, a new collider will rise ...

Part one of a four part series on the fundamental forces (or interactions) of physics begins with the strong force or strong interaction - which on the small scale holds quarks together to form ...

Abstract: The presence of Nanoplastic particles (NPs) is very common in the environment and the effect of such NPs on ecological systems is still far from being clearly understood. The identification ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock A Kansas nonprofit has a "can"-do attitude when it comes to helping the community. For more than 20 years, ...