JJ Thomson’s discovery of the electron in 1897 reshaped physics forever. Honoured with the 1906 Nobel Prize, he mentored ...

When a guitar string is plucked or a playground swing is set in motion, the movement gradually fades away. Physicists call ...

After more than 30 years, physicists in Finland have uncovered the heaviest nucleus ever seen to emit a proton, a rare ...

The use of atomic clocks could help bring cosmology and astrophysics "down to Earth" by allowing scientists to investigate the mysteries of dark energy and dark matter in the lab.

The use of atomic clocks could help bring cosmology and astrophysics "down to Earth" by allowing scientists to investigate the mysteries of dark energy and dark matter in the lab.

In a study published July 7th, 2025, in the journal Physical Review Research, University of Vermont researchers discovered a ...

A Vermont research team has cracked a 90-year-old puzzle, creating a quantum version of the damped harmonic oscillator. By ...

First came the idea of splitting the atom; then, a chain of events leading to a moment forever etched in collective memory—the use of nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

There are also rumblings through other sectors of particle physics, like neutrino research, of observations of particle behavior not quite adding up with the Standard Model’s predictions.

A University of Vermont physicist and his student wondered if there are systems in the atomic scale that behave like the ...