At 4 a.m., while most of New Jersey slept, a Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) physicist sat at his computer ...

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Spencer Axani, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is the inventor of CosmicWatch, a portable, low-cost particle detector that tracks muons, invisible particles that ...

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Inside high-energy proton collisions, quarks and gluons briefly form a dense, boiling state before cooling into ordinary ...

A new presidential initiative called QMIT will advance the development of quantum technologies—and help ensure that they are ...

New results from the MicroBooNE experiment rule out the existence of a sterile neutrino, reshaping how scientists think about ...

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Exotic hypothetical particles known as axions could potentially be produced inside a nuclear reactor, something The Big Bang ...

It sounds like something from the plot of Interstellar, but this plan to beam precious data back to Earth—before it’s lost ...

Trying to choose between an M.Sc in Physics or Applied Physics? Learn the simple differences between studying the laws of ...

Astrophysicist Ray Jayawardhana will become Caltech's next president. He joins the campus from Johns Hopkins University, ...