"History shows us that whenever you do open a new 'energy window,' you never really know what you're going to find. It's completely unexplored." ...

Using an observatory under construction deep beneath the Mediterranean Sea near Sicily, scientists have detected a ghostly ...

A neutrino with an estimated energy of 220 PeV – that’s 220 million billion electron volts – slammed into the seawater near ...

Light, heat, radio transmissions, and medical X-rays may not seem all that similar ... and are delivered by massless particles called photons. The only thing that differentiates one type of ...

Scientists discover low-mass microquasars can accelerate cosmic rays, reshaping theories on high-energy particle origins.

Researchers at Argonne have discovered that superconducting nanowire photon detectors can also be used as highly accurate ...

Most of our gadgets rely on chips. Electronic chips. But that’s about to change. The chips of the future are chips of light. They use light particles known as photons to move data. Europe wants to ...

Gamma rays are highly energetic photons, and very high-energy gamma rays carry with them energies of trillions of electron volts, a level that is hundreds of billions of times greater than visible ...

Radiation within the visible spectrum can appear black if it is low in power – more specifically, lower in power than its ...