Asking what existed before the Big Bang is often dismissed as meaningless, since traditional physics breaks down when pushed ...

The key test passed by sPHENIX to prove it is ready to measure the properties of quark-gluon plasma is called a "standard ...

A groundbreaking particle detector in New York, known as sPHENIX, has successfully passed a crucial standard candle test, ...

The gang on The Big Bang Theory mainstreamed nerd culture, but it wouldn't have been the same juggernaut if it had debuted ...

He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on gravitational waves, which helped confirm Einstein’s general theory of ...

In a recent paper for the Journal of High Energy Physics, researchers with the sPHENIX Collaboration announced that it had ...

Thanks to the lovable geeks on TV’s “The Big Bang Theory,” an Escondido inventor’s decades-old toy is now spinning with new life.

The sPHENIX detector at Brookhaven passes its first big test, proving ready to study quark-gluon plasma born just after the ...

The Big Bang may not have been the origin of the universe's most mysterious matter. Instead, dark matter could have been created in a second creation event, a "Dark Big Bang." ...

The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe—a singular moment when space, time and matter sprang into existence. But what if this was not the beginning at all? What if ...