The claim that neutrinos can travel faster than light has been given a knock by an independent experiment. On 17 October, the Imaging Cosmic and Rare Underground Signals (ICARUS) collaboration ...

Steven Weinberg grew up in New York City, where his father worked as a court stenographer. His early interest in science was encouraged by his family and by his teachers at the Bronx High School of ...

On December 6, 2016, a high-energy particle called an electron antineutrino hurtled to Earth from outer space at close to the speed of light carrying 6.3 petaelectronvolts (PeV) of energy. Deep inside ...

Abdus Salam was a theoretical physicist, a prolific researcher, an advocate for science, and a Nobel Prize laureate. He won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for ...