The IceCube neutrino detector has allowed researchers to resolve a debate about what types of particles make up ...

Neutrinos are elementary particles that are predicted to be massless by the standard model of particle physics, yet their ...

Researchers are using machine learning, symbolic regression, and high-performance computing to explore and classify string ...

In the world of particle physics, where scientists unravel the mysteries of the universe, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are making waves with how they're increasing ...

After Trump administration pressure, the World Bank may make sweeping changes to global energy finance.

The discovery of the cosmic acceleration problem truly inspired me as a teenage physics nerd. Recent, related revelations about dark energy will hopefully capture the interest of today’s young ...

Despite soaring power demand, Republican lawmakers in the Texas Legislature are pushing to rein in renewable energy, part of a national wave of Trump-era opposition.

Climate science is an entirely separate magisteria from energy and energy physics. What we meant by “saving the planet with coal and uranium” is that you aren’t going to change how society can produce ...

Dark energy may have a completely unknown aspect of physics acting as an accomplice in its efforts to defy gravity, suppressing the growth of large-scale structures like galaxy superclusters.

The latest Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument results fall short of the discovery threshold but strengthen evidence for dynamical dark energy.

Roland Winston, SB’56, SM’57, PhD’63—a pioneer in solar energy, engineering, and physics—died Feb. 8 at his home in California. He was 88. Winston was a University of Chicago professor in the ...