The original story “ Physicists solved a decades-old mystery about static electricity ” is published in The Brighter Side of ...

A microscopic layer of environmental carbon solves a long-standing mystery about static electricity's true origins.

Static electricity may seem simple. Students often learn that rubbing a balloon against their hair will cause negatively ...

A new subatomic particle known as the Ξcc⁺ has been discovered at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. This heavy proton-like particle contains two charm quarks and was detected using the upgraded LHCb ...

A radical idea that resolves many quantum paradoxes suggests there is no objective view of reality. How can the cosmos be stitched together from interlocking perspectives?

OpenAI has announced that it has used GPT-5.2 to derive new theoretical physics formulas. The research, which also includes the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and Harvard University, has ...

In what could provide a glimpse into the future of academics, OpenAI's ChatGPT has derived a new formula in theoretical physics, showing that certain particle interactions previously deemed impossible ...

Nima Arkani-Hamed, Professor of Physics at the Institute for Advanced Study, called the findings "exciting" and noted that the paper demonstrates how modern AI tools can excel at pattern recognition ...

In July 2012, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Europe triumphantly announced the discovery of the Higgs boson, the long-sought linchpin of the subatomic world. Interacting with Higgs ...

Scientists have taken a major step toward solving a long-standing mystery in particle physics, by finding no sign of the particle many hoped would explain it. An international collaboration of ...

Deep underground in southern China, there is a 20,000-ton tank of liquid that can detect neutrinos. Named JUNO, the detector's first results are in — and they're very promising. When you purchase ...

The University of Chicago welcomed representatives from two leading European institutions on Nov. 19 to mark the expansion of science collaboration into the field of particle physics and cosmology.