Research means asking questions of the universe. For centuries, clever minds have advanced science by devising ingenious experiments designed so their results reveal something about the laws of nature ...

Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for research on the strange behavior of subatomic particles called quantum tunneling that enabled the ultra-sensitive measurements achieved by ...

Work underway inside the University of Iowa Spaceflight Laboratory will eventually become part of one of the world’s largest particle physics experiments.Studen ...

There are precision measurements, and then there’s the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. In each of LIGO’s twin gravitational wave detectors (one in Hanford, Washington, and the ...

Artificial intelligence is now radically reshaping the landscape of physics, generating experimental layouts that outperform traditional human engineering while sparking questions about the nature of ...