The way you think about atoms may not be quite right.
A reader asks: "If atoms are mostly empty space, then why does anything feel solid?" James Beacham, a post-doctoral researcher with the ATLAS Experiment group of The Ohio State University, explains.
Electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force are two distinct fundamental forces. That wasn’t always the case.
In the 1900s, Albert Einstein unified the concepts of space and time, giving us a useful new way to picture the universe.
Indirectly testing this theory, motivated by the mysterious mass of the Higgs boson, could be within reach for experiments at the Large Hadron Collider.
To understand why scientists are excited about detecting a new background, just look to the history of studies of the CMB.
Scientists are championing a relatively new technique as a method to understand the structure of the early universe in three dimensions.
For over a century, scientists have wondered what is counteracting the force of gravity in the universe.
