Astronomers released the latest and most exquisite baby picture yet of the universe on Thursday, one that showed it to be 80 to 100 million years older and a little fatter, with more light and dark matter than ... Read more
Q. Why are clouds white? A. When clouds are white (and many are not), “it’s because light from the sun is white, a combination of all the colors of the rainbow,” said Michael ... Read more
To the Editor: “Chasing the Higgs” (March 5) conveyed the thrill of the Higgs discovery, the mysteries ripe to be solved and the challenges facing particle physics. The global hunt ... Read more
Meyrin, Switzerland — Vivek Sharma missed his daughter. A professor at the University of California, San Diego, Dr. Sharma had to spend months at a time away from home, coordinating a team ... Read more
Are the glory days of American physics over? On a Sunday morning early in January, about two dozen prominent physicists gathered behind closed doors at the California Institute of Technology to ... Read more
ATOMS The basic units of ordinary matter consist of one or more electrons circling a tiny, dense nucleus of protons and neutrons. BOSONS Particles that can transmit forces between other particles, ... Read more
Donald A. Glaser, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1960 for inventing, at 25, an ingenious device called the bubble chamber to trace the paths of subatomic particles, died on Thursday at his home in ... Read more
Robert C. Richardson, who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics for coaxing a rare form of helium into a bizarre liquid state that had never been seen before, died on Tuesday in Ithaca, N.Y. He was 75. ... Read more