John Peoples was asked in the mid-1990s about the value of doing pure scientific research — that which has no predetermined ...

Scientists from CERN have measured the speed of sound in the quark-gluon plasmas with record precision, a key step to ...

The British Science Association, founders of the British Science Festival, has announced an exciting and diverse programme of ...

The British Science Association, founders of the British Science Festival, has announced an exciting and diverse programme of ...

As few as five electrons in a semiconductor can exhibit collective behaviour, forming a “Coulomb liquid”, according to ...

The world’s largest atom smasher has conducted its first-ever collisions between protons and oxygen ions, as part of an ...

Far lighter than other ions collided at the LHC, oxygen (and neon) could tell us about conditions in the early universe.

What happens when the smallest building blocks of matter refuse to play by the rules of traditional physics? For decades, ...