“There’s a lot of meanings for ‘small,’” says Janet Conrad, a particle physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

A new particle detector has passed a crucial test, demonstrating it's ready to start investigating quark-gluon plasma, the ...

KM3NeT is just such a detector array. It's submerged 3,450 meters (11,320 feet) under the surface of the ocean, a depth at which no sunlight can penetrate. In such complete darkness, neutrino events ...

Throughout school and in any physics class, students are told that nothing travels faster than the speed of light. However, that statement might no longer be true because of the neutrino—the particle ...

The universe is a big place, but it's made out of small pieces. The periodic table includes elements such as oxygen, carbon and other building blocks that make up stars, cats or cups of coffee. But ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is making significant strides in the realm of physics, demonstrating immense potential across ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A powerful new particle accelerator that could be set up at Fermilab, a telescope to observe the oldest light in the universe, and research to learn more about mysteries such as dark ...

Since the beginning, Star Trek has introduced audiences to mind-bending concepts that defy the known realities. Among these cosmic mysteries is the Omega particle. This strange substance haunts the ...