Penn scientists may have found a way to power future AI with exotic light-matter particles instead of electrons.

Scientists working at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider may be seeing the strongest hints yet of physics beyond the Standard Model — the decades-old theory that explains the fundamental particles and ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A powerful new particle accelerator that could be set up at Fermilab, a telescope to observe the oldest light in the universe, and research to learn more about mysteries such as dark ...

Physicists have created a new hybrid light-matter particle that could fundamentally reshape the future of AI and computation.

Scientists have discovered that ultraheavy atomic nuclei could explain some of the highest-energy cosmic rays ever observed.

An experiment to seek dark-matter particles in remote wilderness locations has detected nothing yet, narrowing down the range of the particles’ possible interactions 1. The invisible material called ...

Researchers at Penn have created a hybrid light-matter particle that could dramatically speed up AI computing while using far ...

Quantum physics paints a strange picture of the world, one filled with spooky connections, unsettling uncertainties and—perhaps oddest of all—particles that spontaneously spring into being from the ...

A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of subatomic particles. What happens to these particles within atoms would stay unexplained ...