New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still ...

Learn about the major world events and happenings, birthdays, and deaths that took place on July 04. Check what happened ...

On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, proclaiming that the United States was no ...

Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.

Far lighter than other ions collided at the LHC, oxygen (and neon) could tell us about conditions in the early universe.

There's nothing to get a scientist's heart pumping like a good, old-fashioned statistical debate. When it comes to topics ...

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From Montezuma’s fall to the discovery of the Higgs boson, this week in history spans Aztec tragedy, American independence, ...

This week, more than 600 scientists met in Venice, Italy, to debate the future direction of European particle physics in the global context. The Open Symposium is an important step in the ongoing ...

Under the right conditions, this collapse doesn’t end in a singularity — instead, it bounces and begins expanding again,” said University of Portsmouth professor Enrique Gaztañaga in a statement that ...

In a special two-part series, S4C steps inside the world-leading science laboratory CERN… The episodes delving into its ...

On June 11, the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine announced the result of a three-year study to set a ...