Pondering the scale of the cosmos can feel as if you’re peering over the edge of the brink; it can be daunting enough to make you want to flee to the comforts of working, commuting, and other ...

Harvard University theoretical physicist Strassler debuts with a mind-bending investigation of “how the most esoteric-seeming physics affects every aspect of human existence.” Examining what makes ...

The detector for the MicroBooNe is gently lowered into place. A completely new subatomic particle — one so reclusive and strange that it passes undetected through ordinary matter — could be lurking in ...

They may not be on a par with alien goo or liver-eating mutants, but there's a whole collection of real-life X Files that physicists are puzzling over. Some cases eventually will be solved, like the ...

Growing up in the US during the oil embargo of the early 1970s, I was bombarded by public service announcements encouraging people to conserve energy. But at a very young age, I also read that “energy ...