A proposed funding program for small- and medium-scale projects reveals insights into the science, logistical challenges, and future of particle physics research. Particle physicists have a reputation ...

An 18-year-old student from Pasadena, California, placed first in the nation’s oldest and most prestigious science and mathematics competition for high school students, winning $250,000. Matteo Paz ...

The University of Minnesota-connected citizen science platform logs its one billionth contribution to scientific knowledge.

Future generations of Yale quantum scientists, engineers, and physicists likely won’t know the details of the monumental effort underway today to reshape the upper slope of Science Hill on campus. But ...

Simon Fraser University researchers are driving Canada’s involvement on a major upgrade of the renowned ATLAS experiment as ...

The International Space Station has once again become the stage for groundbreaking science, as NASA continues expanding the ...

A “muon shot” aims to study the basic forces of the cosmos. But meager federal budgets could limit its ambitions. By Dennis Overbye and Katrina Miller Friday, Dec. 8: This story was updated to include ...

A drone photo taken on June 27, 2026 shows the toroidal-field superconducting magnet for the fusion reactor in Hefei, east ...

Stars aren't supposed to simply disappear, yet countless bright objects that once appeared in the sky in the 1950s no longer do. To try to solve the mystery, scientists have turned to a growing field ...

A new estimate of the ghostly particle’s maximum possible mass brings physicists a tad closer to understanding the universe. By Katrina Miller Katrina Miller studied neutrinos in graduate school, but ...

An exclusive conversation with Kevin Weil, head of OpenAI for Science, a new in-house team that wants to make scientists more productive. In the three years since ChatGPT’s explosive debut, OpenAI’s ...

Prepare to pursue graduate studies or launch successful careers in national laboratories, research and industry. The Master of Science in Physics program at UMass Lowell provides a strong foundation ...