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Charles Bennett and the team behind an effort to understand the early universe received one of the 'Oscars of Science' Sunday night in Palo Alto, California.

This guest post is by Brookhaven Lab physicist Steve Kettell, the Chief Scientist for the U.S. Daya Bay Neutrino Project in southern China. Kettell received his Ph.D. in 1990 from Yale University and is the leader of Brookhaven's Electronic Detector Group.

Conflict between theory and observational evidence suggests a missing ingredient in our understanding of the early Universe. Einstein's theory of general relativity, formulated in 1916, treats gravity as a deformation of spacetime as a result of...

For the first time, physicists have a statistically significant measurement of the joint polarization of W and Z bosons.

After an extensive international search, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has appointed Mark Jones as the new gr

The great question-- Is our universe weird permutation among countless other possibilities, observed for no other reason than that its special conditions allowed life to arise?

An ambitious new collaboration promises to expand our understanding the strong nuclear force, which some physicists call the glue that holds the universe together.

Open source startup takes monitoring to new frontiers with superior scalability NOV 17TH, SAN FRANCISCO: VictoriaMetrics, the open source, time series ...

"We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with different opinions." -William Shatner

Optical atomic clocks are the most accurate measuring instruments ever built and are becoming key tools for basic and applied research, for example to test the constancy of natural constants or fo ...