Two thousand feet under the shores of Lake Erie, in a six-story salt cavern, one of the most sophisticated light detectors ever constructed is waiting. Every second, several particles speed through ...

An international team of nuclear physicists has created zinc-54 for the first time. Moreover, they have confirmed that it can undergo two-proton decay, a rare process that has only been seen in one ...

Galaxies, stars, planets and life, all are formed from one essential substance: matter. But the abundance of matter is one of the biggest unsolved mysteries of physics. The Big Bang, 13.8 billion ...