The skies may be full of invisible "boson stars" that are made of an exotic ... and interactions with that field naturally produced the symmetry. This was the axion, so named after a brand of ...

One of the tiniest building blocks of the universe has a weigh-in problem, and Ashutosh Kotwal is determined to get to the bottom of it. For nearly 30 years, the Duke physicist has led a worldwide ...

Have you ever wondered what mysteries lie hidden in the vast expanse of space? While stars, galaxies, and planets dominate our night skies, the universe holds secrets far beyond what our eyes can see.

The upgrade to the Large Hadron Collider will allow scientists to better study known phenomena and to search for new ones.

If an up quark inside of a proton spits out a W boson, one of the fundamental particles that carries the weak force, the up quark will transform into a down quark and release an electron and a ...