In the culmination of a US community planning process that began in late 2020, the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel has approved the recommendations of the P5 Report. The US particle physics ...

For decades, the dream of a virtually limitless, clean energy source has hovered just out of reach, more science fiction than ...

The National Academies has appointed a committee to carry out the first decadal survey on biological physics. The survey aims to help federal agencies, policymakers, and academic leadership understand ...

Where do the highest-energy cosmic rays come from? Can nanotubes of boron nitride be used to make new electronic devices? Why do some clouds rain while others don’t? These are just some of the ...

An exotic effect in particle physics that’s theorized to occur in immense gravitational fields—near a black hole, or in conditions just after the Big Bang—has been seen in a lump of material in a ...

John H Marburger III experienced dramatic changes in science policy in his lifetime. For a quarter-century after the Second World War, science was largely protected from public scrutiny and government ...

American Cynthia “Thia” Keppel and Italian Patrizia Rossi are research physicists who’ve been probing the nucleus of the atom for years. But there’s one nagging mystery that even these brainy women ...