Materials, Compounds, Particles, Space Dust, Plasma, Photons, Neutrons, Neutrinos, Cosmic/Gamma Rays, Antimatter etc

Targeting individual atoms

Uniquely sharp X-ray view

Earnest Rutherford's ambitions

'Weighing' atoms with electrons

How light steers electrons in metals

Foam offers way to manipulate light

Coupled exploration of light and matter

A leap forward for diamond-defect NMR

When does a molecule make up its mind?

A microscope for imaging surface chemistry

Scientists took an MRI scan of a single atom

Towards an 'orrery' for quantum gauge theory

This is the highest-ever resolution photo of atoms

Physicists aim to classify all possible phases of matter

How Steven Weinberg transformed physics and physicists

A new unified theory of heat transport - from cystlsl to glasses

Real-space observation of magnon interaction with space-time crystals

Exotic nuclei, atoms, particles and states of matter:

Structure of exotic light nuclei: z = 2, 3, 4

Unique insights into an exotic matter state

Why are theoricists excited about exotic nuclei?

Charming particle has a record-breaking lifetime

Scientists unveil new form of matter: time crystals

Physicists say they've discovered a new state of matter

'Deep learning' makes search for exotic particles easier

Quantum 'fifth state of matter' observed in space for the first time

Physicists excited by discovery of new form of matter, excitonium

Physicists create a bizarre 'Wigner Crystal' made purely of electrons

Strange topological materials  are popping up everywhere physicists look

Fractons: the weirdest matter, made of partial particles, defies description

Exotic atoms hold clues to unsolved physics puzzle at the dawn of the universe 

Studying quantum phenomenon in magnetic systems to understand exotic states of matter

The Periodic Table:

Discoverers of chemical elements

World's oldest periodic table found in storage

What if you made an actual model of the Periodic Table

Isotopes:

A comprehensive theoretical survey of nuclei

Formation of the heavy elements:

Forged in the heart of stars

Lead nuclei have a thick skin

The formation of the heaviest elements

Seeking the origin of gold in the universe

Synthesizing the heaviest elements in space

New insights into the creation of heavy elements

Origins of heavy elements in the universe uncovered

Interstellar iron isn't missing, it's just hiding in plain sight

Extraterrestrial plutonium atoms turn up on ocean bottom

A study of Earth's crust hints that supernovas aren't gold mines

Dying stars called collapsars may form much of the Universe's gold

A holistic model for the origin of orogenic gold deposits and its implications for exploration 

Astrophysics:        

Map of galactic clouds takes shape

Probing ultra-dense matter in neutron stars

Radiation measurements in the stratosphere

Cosmic particle accelerators get things going

New theory to lead to radiationless revolution

Old astronomic riddle on the way to be solved

European Roadmap for Astroparticle Physics

Astrophysicists target mystery of powerful particles 

Focus on high energy particles and atmospheric processes 

Brochure of European Roadmap for Astroparticle Physics

Cosmic superaccelerators surprise scientists at South Pole telescope

Astronomers find missing matter, solving decades-long mygstery of outer space     

Nature's fundamental forces:

The true nature of van der Waals forces 

Paul Dirac and the Nobel Prize in physics

A fifth force of nature: the protophobic X boson

New study implies existence of fifth force of nature

Characterizing the forces that hold everything together 

Study finds unexpected long-range particle interactions

Physics is on the verge of an Earth-shattering discovery

A new key to understanding molecular evolution in space 

Hungarian scientist may have found a fifth force of nature

Weak atomic bond, theorized 14 years ago, observed for first time

A deepening crisis forces physicists to rethink structure of Nature's Laws

Discovery of new subatomic particle sheds light on fundamental force of nature 

The Casimir Effect:

Life and signs of the Casimir Effect

Science and technology of the Casimir Effect

Material programming:

Artificial molecules 

How to program materials

'Artificial' atoms created in graphene

Researchers measure electron orbitals in 3D

Entering the field of zaptosecond measurement

Engineers turn plastic insulator into heat conductor

A new way to display the 3D structure of molecules

Dimensionality transition in a newly created material

Green light for a new generation of dynamic materials

The unbelievable speed of electron emission from an atom

Interferometric measurements shake up attosecond science

Scientists create new thin material that mimics cell membrane

Revealing 'hidden' phases of matter through the power of light

Single molecule control for a millionth of a billionth of a second

New approach to determining how atoms are arranged in materials

Scientists capture atomic motion in four dimensions for the first time

Electron-behaving nanoparticles rock current understanding of matter

Scientists experimentally confirm electron model in complex molecules

Borrowing from pastry chefs, engineers create nanolayered composites

Teaching computers to intelligently design 'billions' of possible materials

Physicists determine the 3D positions of individual atoms for the first time

Physicists discover new laws governing the 'developmental biology of materials'

Scientists unveil high-sensitivity 3D technique using single-atom measurements

Astonishingly short mid-infrared pulses offer new tool for peering inside atoms and solids 

A new procedure for obtaining a cheap, ultra-hard material that is resistant to radioactivity

Scientists determine precise 3D location and identity of all 23,000 atoms in a nanoparticle

Engineers create the 'impossible ' - new material that is stronger than steel and light as plastic

Antimatter:

Does antimatter fall up or down?

What happened to all of the world's antimatter?

Canadian-led study akin to antimatter forensics

Laser breakthrough has physicists close to cooling down antimatter

Special materials and effects:

What a mesh    

A new spin on reality

The atom without properties

Quantum gas turns supersolid

Einsteinium chemistry captured

Getting a grip on exotic atomic nuclei  

Unexpected behaviour of atomic nuclei   

A raft of soap bubbles remembers its past

Time crystals in periodically driven systems

Cold-atom lattice bends the topological rules

Fundamental solid state phenomenon unraveled  

Demonstration of a single molecule piezoelectric effect

Classical topological order in the kinetics of artificial spin ice

Band and correlated insulators of cold fermions in a mesoscopic lattice

New insights bolster Einstein's idea about how heat moves through solids

Physicists discover 'apparent departure from the laws of thermodynamics'

How a tetrahedral substance can be more symmetrical than a spherical atom

Theoretical physics unveils one of the most ubiqitous and elusive concepts in chemistry

Einsteinium: researcher's reveal chemical secrets of the element that bears Einstein's name

Einsteinium chemistry captured

The Standard Model: 

QCD made simple

12 matter particles suffice in nature

Hidden worlds of fundamental particles

A particle purely made of nuclear forces

Probing physical reality's 'quantum glue' 

What no new particles means for physics

Existence of a new quasiparticle demonstrated

Deuteron joins proton as smaller than expected 

'Material universe' yields surpprising new particle

New portal to unveil the dark sector of the Universe

Seeking dark matter, they detected another mystery

Physicists measure the 'magic' fine-structure constant

One kind of supersymmetry shown to emerge naturally

Nuclear forces from chiral effective field theory - a primer

Observation of excess electronic recoil events in Xenon1T 

First indirect evidence of so-far undetected Strange-Baryons

Misbehaving kaons could hint at the existence of new particles

There's a giant mystery hiding inside every atom in the Universe

'Quasiparticles' reveal incredibly minute distortions in light waves

Breaking the Standard Model to fix understanding of the Universe

Solution offered to the puzzle of the origin of matter in the universe

Growing anomolies at the Large Hadron Collider hint at new particles 

New groundbreaking research may expose new aspects of the universe 

Evidence discovered for a particle that is its own antiparticle - the Majorana fermion

Precision experiment first to isolate, measure weak force between protons, neutrons

Something weird just happened that we can't really explained using existing physics

LHC and the Higgs Boson :

Axiogenesis

Hot nuclear matter

A roadmap for the future

LHC particle collisions at CERN

The future of unified gauge theories

The uncertain future of particle physics

Physicists discover family of tetraquarks

What no new particles means for physics

LHCb announces a charming new particle

The physics still hiding in the Higgs boson

CERN as a leadership building organization

Higgs particle's favorite 'daughter' comes home

Physicists construct new particle detector for LHC

Experiment confirms fundamental symmetry in nature

Going nowhere fast - demise of the Standard Model?

Higgs Boson spills secrets as LHC prepared for return

Start of most sensitive search yet for dark matter axion

New hunt for understanding particles at the CERN LHC

Particle physicists ready to go beyond the 'God Particle'

Could the Higgs boson explain the size of the Universe?

Dark matter detector observes rarest event ever recorded

How Ceph is helping to unlock the secrets of the Universe

Study provides insight into the physics of the Higgs particle

Hypothetical particle explains three major mysteries of the universe

LHC experiments bring new insight into matter of the priordial universe

CERN's LHCb experiment reports observation of exotoc pentaquark particles

Electrons:

Viscous electron fluids

A crystal made of electrons

Electrons at the speed limit

Observing the birth of quasiparticles

Fundamental physics discovery announced

Electron's negativity cut in half by computer

Holographic maps of quasiparticle interference

Clocking electrons racing faster than light in glass

NASA listens in as electrons whistle while they work

Electron's shapeliness throws a curve at supersymmetry

The geometry of an electron determined for the first time

One of the world's fastest cameras films motion of electrons

Can the wave function of an electron be divided and trapped?

Electrons moving in a magnetic field exhibit strange quantum behaviour

Electron is surprisingly round, say Imperial scientists following ten year study 

Photons:

Newton & Hooke

Newton's theory of light

Photons run out of loopholes

What is the lifetime of a photon?

Crystals ripple in response to light

Artificial magnetic fields for photons

Proton radius puzzle may be solved

How light behaves in a curved space

A quantum of light for material science

Molecules made of light may be possible

Massive photons in an artificial magenetic field

Superfast light source made from artificial atom

Super-fast camera can capture light as it travels

Physicists detect the enigmatic spin momentum of light

Nuclear structure calculations point to proton expansion

The quantum spin Hall effect is a fundamental property of light

Extraordinary momentum and spin discovered in evanescent light

Changing the colour of single photons in a diamond quantum memory

Single-photo emission from single-electron transport in a light emitting diode

Single-photon exchange confirmed over record-breaking distance of 20,000km

Protons, Antiprotons:

Zeroing in on the proton's magnetic moment

Proton Dripping Tests a Basic Force of Nature

Measurement of interaction between antiprotons

Physicists calculate the speed of nuclear reactions

Scientists measure precise proton radius to help resolve decade-old puzzle

Physicists make most precise measurement ever of the proton's magnetic moment

Neutrons:

Twisting neutrons

Neutron-rich matter in heaven and on Earth

World's smallest neutrino detector observes elusiive interaction of particles

Nuclei and isotopes:   

A comprehensive theoretical survey of nuclei

Quasi-particles:

A quasiparticle quest

Dark exitons outnumber bright ones

The near magical mystery of quasiparticles

Neutrinos:

About Neutrinos        

In search of neutrinos

Weirdos of the universe

On the hunt for neutrinos

Neutrino magnetohydrodynamics

Black hole may be neutrino factory

New clues in hunt for cosmic neutrinos 

Neutrinos reveal Earth's inner structure

To catch a solar neutrino, search at night

Neutrinos, ever bizarre, enjoy the spotlight 

Physicists call for 5bn Euro neutrino factory

Probing the transforming world of neutrinos

ICECUBE South Pole Neutrino Observatory

Neutrino produced in a cosmic collider far away

South Pole experiment finds no sterile neutrinos

High-energy neutrinos originate in our own galaxy

Radar points the way to detecting cosmic neutrinos

Massive neutrinos solve a cosmological conundrum

CECUBE dertects gamma-ray neutrinos from blazar

Neutrinos lead to unexpected discovery in basic math

Researchers send 'wireless' message using neutrinos

ICECUBE pushes neutrinos to the forefront of astronomy

X-ray telescopes find black hole may be a neutrino factory

2015 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for neutrino research

Detecting neutrinos, physicists look into the heart of the Sun

Lower limit on the half-life of neutrinoless double-beta decay

First electron neutrino data from NOvA experiment analyzed

Scientists report first results from CUORE neutrino experiment

Borexino detector catches neutrinos from the Sun's CNO cycle

Is the great neutrino puzzle pointing to multiple missing particles?

Borexino experiment etects neutrinos from the Sun's C-N-O cycle

Three types of extreme-energy space particles may have unified origin

Mounting evidence suggests neutrinos are key to why antimatter is rare

Maximum mass of lightest neutrino revealed using astronomical big data

Cosmic mystery deepens with discovery of new ultra high-energy neutrino

51,000 cloud GPUs converge to power neautrino discovery at the South Pole

Calcium isotope brings scientists closer to determining mass of mysterious neutrinos

Researchers show neutrinos can deliver not only full-on hits but also 'glancing blows'

IceCube detection of a high-energy particle - antineutrino "unmistakenly of extraterrestrial origin"

Muons: 

Firest images of muon beams

A full-scale prototype for muon tomography

Russian scientists on verge of solving the 'muon puzzle'

New experiment hints that a particle breaks the known laws of physics

Muon detector important for imaging and monitoring CO2 storage sites

Hydrogen: 

H3+: the molecule that made the universe

Probing hydrogen under extreme conditions

New material could advance superconductivity 

Metallic Hydrogen: discovery gives insight into planets 

Researchers unravel more mysteries of metallic hydrogen

Helium:

Theory and experiment disagree on alpha particles

Sphere of superfluid helium behaves like black hole

How scientists discovered helium, the first alien element, 150 years ago

A helium-bearing commpound deep inside Earth is found computationally

Economics, helium and the US Federal Helium Reserve. Summary and outlook. 

Fast Radio Bursts:

A galactic fast radio burst finally reveals its origin

Closing in on the cosmic mystery of fast radio bursts

ASKAP telescope speeds up the hunt for new fast radio bursts

Something in our galaxy is flashing every 20 minutes - but what?

With a 2nd repeating radio burst, astronomers close in on an explanation

Gamma Ray Bursts:

Gamma ray bursts contine to surprise

HAWC reveals new look at the very high-energy sky

Scientists detail mechanism behind gamma-ray bursts

Milky Way star set to go supernova with gamma ray burst

An extraordinary gamma-ray burst lives up to its nickname

Scientists trace origins of photons emitted by gamma ray bursts

Terrestrial gamma-ray flashes more common than previously thought?

New astrophysics model sheds light on additional source of long gamma-ray bursts

Cosmic Rays:

A hotspot for powerful cosmic rays

Stalking cosmic rays from the ground 

Using the Universe as a 'cosmological collider'

Radar points the way to detecting cosmic neutrinos

Physicists leapfrog accelerators with ultrahigh energy cosmic rays

Cosmic wave discovery could unlock mysteries of intergalactic space

High-energy cosmic rays are extragalactic visitors from beyond our Milky Way

Space Dust:

Dust particles in  space 

Cosmic dust demystified 

VLT clears up dusty mystery

Mysterious molecules in space

Shocking news about dust grains

Space: the final frontier in silicon chemistry 

Saturn spacecraft samples interstellar dust

Astrochemistry enters a bold new era with ALMA

Light scattering on dust holds clues to habitability 

Space dust carries water and organic compounds

NASA Scientists on the Trail of Mystery Molecules

ALMA: new tools unveiling astronomical mysteries

Heat radiation of small objects: beyond Planck's equations

CODITA: measuring the cosmic dust swept up by the Earth

The Umov Effect: space dust clouds and the mysteries of the Universe

Dust grains captured from space ID'd as first from outside Solar System   

New Milky Way maps could help solve stubborn interstellar material mystery

Plasma:

Highly charged ions

X-ray laser takes aim at cosmic mystery 

Researchers turn liquid metal into a plasma

Scientists uncover exotic matter in the Sun's atmosphere

Exact solution to model Big Bang and quark gluon plasma

'Perfect liquid' quark-gluon plasma is the most vortical fluid

Physicists discover new effect in the interaction of plasmas with solids

Closing in on the border between primordial plasma and ordinary matter