Three Words That Could Overthrow Physics: “What Is Magnetism?”
The standard model still doesn't describe magnets' spooky action at a distance. 04.24.2008
Stupid Science Word of the Month: Unparticle
\un-pär-ti-cl\ n. (2007) A particle whose mass is unrelated to its energy. 04.16.2008
Keeping Up With The Picards
The director of Jumper on putting teleportation on-screen. 03.12.2008
Einstein Didn't Grok His Own Revolution
He thought black holes and quantum mechanics were too weird to be true. 03.10.2008
Teleportation? Very Possible. Next Up: Time Travel.
Some of the most far-out sci-fi is eminently do-able. 02.28.2008
20 Things You Didn't Know About... Relativity
Galileo invented it, Einstein understood it, and Eddington saw it. 02.25.2008
Stupid Science Word of the Month: Barn
A physics joke that bombed. Atomically. 01.29.2008
55. New Technique Nails Down the Amp
01.09.2008
37. How Killer Electrons Form in Space
12.28.2007
Say Hello to the First Antimolecule
Hope you enjoyed it, 'cause it wasn't around long. 12.05.2007
Beyond the Higgs
Looking for "the smoking gluon" 08.13.2007
The Biggest Thing in Physics
Two teams of physicists compete to explain matter—and win a Nobel Prize. 08.13.2007
Microscopy Approaches Fundamental Limits
If God can’t pin down tiny atoms, what hope do mere mortals have? 06.13.2007
The World's Most Complex Structure
Abstract 248-dimensional map may unify the laws of nature. 05.29.2007
Mining for Dark Matter
Seeking the universe’s missing ingredient inside a Minnesota mountain 05.15.2007
The Big Bang Machine
A Long Island particle smasher re-creates the moment of creation. 02.27.2007
Whatever Happened To... Cold Fusion?
03.03.2006
Doomsday Odds Calculated
03.03.2006
The Year in Science: Physics
01.08.2006
You'll Know Less if You Read This Story
You'll Know Less If You Read This Story 11.22.2005
New Physics: Beads Clump When Shaken
New 7: Beads Clump When Shaken 10.24.2005
X [Marks the Spot]
Backyard black holes 10.24.2005
Catch Me if You Can
After spending decades and billions of dollars searching for the Higgs boson particle, physicists will soon find out if it was all just wishful thinking 07.24.2005
If an Electron Can Be in Two Places at Once, Why Can't You?
Electrons do it. Photons do it. Physics legend Roger Penrose thinks he finally knows why you and I can't do it too 06.05.2005
Surf's Up
02.22.2005
9: Teleportation Gets Real
01.03.2005
One Step Closer to Teleportation
10.01.2004
Antimatter
If we understand these mysterious particles, will we know why we exist? 08.02.2004
What's Cooking at the Center of the Earth?
07.25.2004
One Particle, Two Worlds
06.27.2004
Black Holes Made Here
(Deliveries begin in 2007) 06.26.2004
Weird Glowings-on at the Top of the World
02.26.2004
The Strange Case of the Mystery Meson
02.18.2004
Physics
01.02.2004
Opening an Icy Eye on the Neutrino Sky
10.01.2003
What Shape Are Your Protons?
08.01.2003
Physics
01.01.2003
Neutrinos of the Sea
Scientists hope to find rare high-energy particles in the sea. 09.01.2002
Smallville Rebounds from Buckyball Scandal
09.01.2002
A Wrinkle in Space-Time
06.01.2002
Follow Up:
04.01.2002
Atomic Merry-Go-Round
04.01.2002
Physics
Year In Science 01.13.2002
The Unbearably Unstoppable Neutrino
Why a thousand of the best physicists from around the world are trying so hard to catch just a few of nature's weirdest particles 08.01.2001
Where the Buses Run on Space-Time
11.01.2000
The Glue That Holds the World Together
The most we learn about subatomic paricles called gluons, the more the universe seems to be made of nothing at all 07.01.2000
Weather from Outer Space
04.01.1999
The Year in Science: Physics 1997
Score One (More) for the Spooks 01.01.1998
Beams of Stuff
To get closer to the true, quantum nature of matter, physicist David Pritchard has been splitting atoms down the middle, fiddling with the halves, and then putting them back together. In principle, he says, he could do the same to a bacterium. Or even a baby grand. 12.01.1997
The Antiblob
A fountain of anti-matter poses big questions. 08.01.1997
Plasma Porthole
02.01.1997
The Quantum Ski Lift
01.01.1997
Antiatoms: Here Today . . .
01.01.1997
Quantum Cat Tricks
10.01.1996
Vanishing Electrons
07.01.1996
Inside the Quark
05.01.1996
The Bigon
04.01.1996
Flipping Neutrinos
04.01.1996
Whence the Rays? Thence the Rays
A source of mysterious cosmic rays is found at last. 03.01.1996
Looking for the Right Hand
11.01.1995
The Philosopher's Atom
Physicists have long struggled to see the quantum mechanical atom in real-world terms. Now one odd atom is giving them a glimpse--not quite of the phantasmal quantum world, perhaps, but at least of the boundary between the world and the one we inhabit. 11.01.1995
A Small Problem of Propulsion
It's a long way to alpha centauri, but some think antimatter could send us there in record time. 10.01.1995
A Question of Gravitas
07.01.1995
Over The Top
Trying to pin down the most elusive member of the quark family is the perfect task for Melissa Franklin, a physicist with a flair for the eccentric and a love for the big machines. 02.01.1995
Masters of the Universe
11.01.1994
Sweet Little Accelerator
When it comes to particle accelerators, bigger has always meant better. But now a small new machine in Virginia promises to measure up the big guys. 08.01.1994
The War on Radicals
07.01.1994
Welcome to Femtoland
In southern California there's a place where molecular matings are captured flagrante delicto, by laser flashes so fleeting that 10 trillion will pass while you read this sentence. 02.01.1994
The Cinderella Particle
The lowly muon provides insight into the dark spaces between atoms. 12.01.1993
Nuclear Detectives
In California some gumshoe physicists are using a particle accelerator to nab polluters. 04.01.1993
The Biggest Chill
Physicists expect to see some very strange things when matter snuggles up to absolute zero. 02.01.1993
Atom Chasing
Thanks to Sam Hurst. The chemical composition of matter is now an open book. He can detect impurities as small as a single atom. 07.01.1992
Time Travel Redux
Blow up a balloon very, very fast, or zip around a pair of cosmic strings, and you're on your way. 04.01.1992
Watery Eyes
03.01.1992
Vacuum Matters
Forget traditional distinctions between matter and empty space—it's all a seamless whole. 03.01.1992