In Iron Man 2, industrialist Tony Stark needs to create a new element -- so he builds a particle accelerator in his workshop. Is that really possible? The answer may surprise you. The palladium that ...

“Well, that’s gonna be a short conversation,” says John Linnell of They Might Be Giants laughs, when I kick off my conference call by asking about his band’s science background. “It’s been great ...

I don't consider myself a gamer in the sense that I avidly play games on a regular basis. I just play them for sheer enjoyment or to pass time, especially when something is trendy and addictive. Every ...

Michael Falk knows you miss retro-style video games, so he comes up with an iOS game called Ms. Particle-Man. To finish the game, one has to control Ms. Particle-Man and aid him/her in the search for ...

Documentary about Peter Higgs, the man who proposed the existence of a new particle - later named the Higgs Boson - and whose existence was proved 50 years after its postulation. Show more Peter Higgs ...

High above the Florida dunes, a group of excited visitors clambers over the metal grates at the top of the space shuttle launch pad. As a cool winter wind blows and a pale, nearly full moon rises over ...

When particle physicist Jon Butterworth and cosmologist Pedro Ferreira took the stage last night at the Bristol Festival of Ideas, they did so as representatives of the two pillars of modern physics.

Just over a year ago, Particle (formerly Spark), makers of the very popular Core and Particle Photon WiFi development kits, released the first juicy tidbits for a very interesting piece of hardware.