When we go backwards in time through the history of the cosmos, the distances and volumes shrink, while the average energy ...

A recent study has proposed a new mechanism for the formation of primordial black holes that could provide answers about dark matter.

Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory have used supercomputer simulations to predict electric charge distributions in ...

Scientists have demonstrated a new way to use high-energy particle smashups at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) to reveal subtle details about the shapes of atomic nuclei. The method is ...

Nuclear physics theorists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have demonstrated that ...

The way plants communicate is nothing like ours. And yet, true silent conversations happen underground, in the shade of the undergrowth... This morning, my six-year-old daughter walked into our ...

As the nuclei collide with each other the temperature can be raised to about 5 trillion degrees Celsius (°C), whereby the components of the nucleus c– protons and neutrons – are broken down into ...

The Big Bang theory suggests that the universe began as a hot, dense point, expanding into the cosmos we observe today.