If astronomers could catch bursts of gamma rays from supernova explosions that create neutron stars near the Milky Way, the ...

That’s because, as far as we know, electrons are fundamental particles. In other words, they have no smaller components. That ...

After almost a century of speculation, proposals and searches for dark matter, physicists now know that it currently ...

Scientists are calling for changes to chemistry textbooks after discovering a fundamental aspect of structural organic ...

At first, there seems to be no known direct relationship between the expansion of the universe, the number of the gravitational constant, and the proximity of the infinitely variable genetic codes to ...

Understanding the origin of the mass of subatomic particles like protons and neutrons is a major challenge in modern physics.

Once inside the body, HIV persists because of its remarkable ability to hide within healthy CD4 T cells, where it can lie ...

Now, H.E.S.S. scientists are excited because they’ve detected the highest energy electrons and positrons to date (a positron ...

The nature of dark matter has puzzled astronomers since discovering that 85% of the universe's matter is invisible through ...

Researchers believe that observing gamma rays from a supernova could confirm the existence of axions, potentially solving the ...